Top 199 Foolish Quotes

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don’t apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn’t do it.

It would be foolish to say that betting does not happen. There is a list of 4-5,000 crore industry that happens on every match and it’s about time we legalize it and start taxing it, making money where we should.

Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I’d be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there’s energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It’s a living thing, and you just follow it.

I definitely have been foolish.

If you come on a band tense, you’re going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they’re very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

There’s a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that’s foolish. They’re not really listening.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

Come on, we would be foolish to say that there’s never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn’t happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I’m not really worried about anybody or anything. I think I have a lot to offer. It’s just, with your rookie year, your body, it’s just a lot. It may seem foolish, all those dunks and stuff: they look cool, but it takes a toll on your body, for sure.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

I loved music and felt I had enough talent to become a concert pianist, but I was foolish enough to let myself be laughed out ot the idea.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don’t want to be laughed at.

To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things.

The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Kansas and Missouri will continue with separate efforts to offer incentives statewide. We all want to do our best to attract businesses and good jobs, but without foolish giveaways that bear no fruit.

The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Intuitive versus analytical? That’s a foolish choice. It’s foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

The only thing I know is the only things that I know. You can’t ask me to talk about something I have no information on. I stay silent. It’d be foolish. So when I talk about something, it’s something I at least have a little bit of familiarity with me.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.

I think it’s so foolish for people to try and hide their age. I don’t understand that. You should be happy and glad to be living.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn’t believe any of it from an early age – the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

The thing is when you’re… well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don’t really think about whether or not you’re qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it’s up to you to decide whether or not it’s foolish to get up and speak to these people.

If you don’t educate yourself, you’ll never get out of the starting block because you’ll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

We all do make foolish mistakes.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.

Woman is always fickle – foolish is he who trusts her.

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

The American people do not want to waste billions of dollars on a wall that won’t stop illegal immigration but will make America look fearful and foolish.

The post-‘Merlin’ era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That’s the fantastic thing about acting – all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I’m looking forward to different things that come my way.

In a storm, I think, ‘What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?’

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.