Foolhardy Quotes

• There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Cato the Elder

  Differences, Contempt, True Courage

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• Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

  Brandon Mull

  Running, Eye, Hazards

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

  Bernard Williams

  Mature, Knows

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• The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

  Aristotle

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54

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• Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

  Anne Mallory

  Easy, Falsehood

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• I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Delicate Things, Two

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Would Be, World, Conscience

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• To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy

  Bruce McLaren

  Trying, Worthwhile, Wells

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• The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

  Maurice Carter

  Stupid, Imagination, Fool

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• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  Lydia Lunch

  Beautiful, Lunch, Female

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• Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Population, Parenthood

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books

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• I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Cells, Research

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding". www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

  Gary Hamel

  Growth, Way, Grows

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, Harvard Business Press

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

  Bill Bailey

  Gigs, Lasts, Earning

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, Deeds, Skepticism

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

  Cody Rhodes

  Fighting, Males, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Glitter, Duncan

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

  David Mitchell

  Dad, Past, Brave

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?"

  Doris Lessing

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Masters, Plans

  "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.

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• Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

  Joseph Epstein

  Courage, Bravery, Nine

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• The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Girl, May, Projects

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