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Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. — Robert Bloch

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man. — Maria McCann

Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man. — George R R Martin

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right. — Victor Hugo

Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth. — Richard Llewellyn

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child. — Brandon Sanderson

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had — Samuel Johnson

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish. — Marie De France

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart. — Margery Allingham

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example. — Don Meyer

A clever fool and a foolish wise man. — George R R Martin

A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It was a foolish warrior who entrusted his weapons to the care of any man, save himself. — Evan Currie

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done. — Laozi

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. — William Butler Yeats

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Adlai Stevenson I

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV). — Gary Chapman

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience? — Muhammad Asad

It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God's laws do not change and His word is steadfast — Sunday Adelaja

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool. — Julia Quinn

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely. — Charley Reese

A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing. — Robert Jordan

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd. — I-Ching

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman. — Minna Antrim

And the past, for those foolish enough to subscribe to it, holds a grudge harder than anything known to man. — Jobie Hughes

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray — Maeve Binchy

A foolish man ... built his house upon the sand. — Matthew McConaughey

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else ... — Jodi Picoult

It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason. — Karen Hawkins

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man. — Robin Hobb

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. — Aristotle.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it. — G.K. Chesterton

Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed. — Lisa M. Klein

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. — Baltasar Gracian

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left. — Solomon

In a wise community a wise man would not seem foolish! — Bertrand Russell

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem — Nick Bantock

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David H. Hackworth

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ... — Moliere

A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different. — Daphne Du Maurier

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. — Michel De Montaigne

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind. — Hicham El Guerrouj

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards. — Vincent Van Gogh

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said. — William Faulkner

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say. — Confucius

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. — Finley Peter Dunne

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. — Roger Chamberlain

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami

A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death. — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good. A foolish man tries to be good and is therefore not good. — Wayne W. Dyer

can't help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it? — Jim Fergus

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse

Take one man, one foolish woman, put them together in a bowl and stir. — Sarah Addison Allen