Foolish Quotes - Page 7

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

  Karl Kraus

  Success, Education, Wise

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Demand, Littles

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• If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Christian, Eye

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• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Eye, Mirrors, Departed

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.332

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• It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

  Publilius Syrus

  Fear, Foolishness

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• A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

  Solomon

  Wise, Fathers Day, Mother

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• Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

  Martin Luther

  Debt, Wealth, Poor

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Galatians”

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

  Alcuin

  Meaningful, Fun, Drinking

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• It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

  Aesop

  Wise, Wisdom, Skills

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

  Catullus

  Laughter, Laughing

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• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

  Publilius Syrus

  Failure, Sea, Blame

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• Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dream, Trying, Enough

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• I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

  Lucille Ball

  Stupid, Trying, Tvs

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• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

  Tiger Woods

  Money, Stupid, Believe

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• I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Girl, Stupid, Mistake

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  So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Wall, Intelligent, Men

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

  Kirk Cameron

  Atheist, Atheism, Done

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• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Stupid, Thinking, Rocks

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• The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

  C. S. Forester

  Stupid, Fool, I Realized

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• I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Tired, Looks

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• Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Brother, Seeing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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