Foolish Quotes - Page 24

• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

  Honore de Balzac

  Letting Go, Husband, Lying

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• No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Character, Class, Long

  "Grappling with the Monster; Or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink" by Timothy Shay Arthur, (Ch. 4), 1877.

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• Pray, do not mock me.
  I am a very foolish fond old man,
  Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
  And, to deal plainly,
  I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  1605-6 Lear to Cordelia. King Lear, act 4, sc.6, l.52-6.

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• It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Hair, Sorrow

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, III. 26, p. 347-49, 1922.

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• He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Swim, Might

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• Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

  George Herbert

  Empty, Chamber

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

  George Herbert

  Dozen, Tongue

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

  Epictetus

  Grief, Animal, Men

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
  Foolish words and empty story.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stories, Glory, Empty

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Ridiculous, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Fighting, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

  Maria Edgeworth

  First Love, Firsts, Merit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.216

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• of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

  Erica Jong

  Fear, Future, Humankind

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• The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

  Agnes Repplier

  Past, Subtle, Delusion

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

  Kabir

  White, Waste, Soap

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Wind, Trying

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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• I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Ignorant

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Infatuation, Infatuated

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• I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

  Denis Diderot

  Silence, Important, Matter

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• I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

  Jim Parsons

  Bigs, Feels, Universe

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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