Foolish Quotes - Page 14

• Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Compassion, Forgiving, Trying

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• I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

  Charles Bukowski

  Couple, Doctors, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Coffee, Thinking, People

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Too Late

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.

  Colm Toibin

  Heart, Simple, Clothes

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• That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Love You, Men

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.4, Booklassic

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• What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

  Ramana Maharshi

  People, Trying, Want

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Mistake, Self, People

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• How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Confused, Believe, Reflection

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• All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, People

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

  John Ralston Saul

  Destiny, Political, Intellectual

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• Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

  Zoroaster

  Life, Wise, Two

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• My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Fate, Thinking

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

  Sophocles

  Life, Love You, Deeds

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• 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.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Agreement, Talking, People

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• The foolish rush to end their lives.
  Only the steadfast soul survives.

  Christine de Pizan

  Inspirational, Soul, Ends

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• Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Fire, Order

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• We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

  Francisco Franco

  Dream, Believe, Government

  "Spain: Voters Say 'S". content.time.com. June 27, 1977.

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• In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Errors, Self

  David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

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• Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

  Herbert Hoover

  United States, Economic, Lack Of Confidence

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931”

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• When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."

  George Washington

  Fashion, Sorry, Army

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