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All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. — Osho

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

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan

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

No need to waste the foolish tear, Or heave the windy sigh: The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die. — Oscar Wilde

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful. — Epicurus

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

How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness. — Elbert Hubbard

I pity any man, demon or otherwise, foolish enough to believe he owns you. — Pippa DaCosta

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

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him. — Manoj Vaz

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

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

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again. — Ikechukwu Izuakor

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

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from. — Madeline Miller

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

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

It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not. — Sarah J. Maas

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? — Maurice Freehill

XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And — Marcus Aurelius

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

Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light. — Steven Erikson

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

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

The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior. — Ellen J. Barrier

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

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. — Phillips Brooks

The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! — Dante Alighieri

You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

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

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

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

The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. — Barry Goldwater

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. — Bertrand Russell

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

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. — Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

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

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. — Rumi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. — James Oppenheim

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

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild. — George Crabbe

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free ... — William Shakespeare

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

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