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A fool is a thorn in his own flesh,
and day after day his wounds worsen.
The more he serves folly,
the more foolish he becomes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. — John Ray

Unconditional love is quite foolish, but it is the only kind of love that can change the world. — Matt Tullos

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

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3). — A.W. Tozer

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me. — Albert Camus

If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3 — Melissa De La Cruz

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

But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal — Martha Finley

If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them. — Brian Staveley

It's foolish to fight the bond between you. You'd be better off going with it and letting the panties drop where they may. — Stacey O'Neale

In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth. — Chuck Palahniuk

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world. — Pratik Akkawar

The Foolish Warrior attacks Enemy soldiers. The Supreme Warrior battles the Mind. — John Viril

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 fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. — Gloria Swanson

Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly. — Peter Huber

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. — Charles Baudelaire

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

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

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. — Magha

only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists. — Bertrand Russell

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple. — Anzia Yezierska

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them. — Diane Johnson

Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise. — John Owen

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things. — Alfred De Vigny

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

For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What — Algernon Blackwood

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor. — John Ray

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. — Kristin Cashore

It's foolish men who die for their country. The intelligent ones make others die for their country instead. — Anonymous

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

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come — Peter Ustinov

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. — Isaac Asimov

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. — Paramahansa Yogananda

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. — Publilius Syrus

Nothing has caused more foolishness in this world than the pursuit of beauty. It's foolish to pursue something that is everywhere. — Cassia Leo

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman. — Mary Lascelles

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
— Cher

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions. — Leon Panetta

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? — L.M. Montgomery

The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. — Shannon L. Alder

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

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. — Oliver Goldsmith

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear. — Swami Muktananda

It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt. — Rami Belson

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards. — Manu Joseph

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. — David V. Gaggin

I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. — Jerome K. Jerome

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing. — Nikola Tesla

The girl is an accident waiting to happen: vulnerable, impressionable, and foolish as the day is long. — Tessa Dawn

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness. — Anne-Laure Bondoux

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. — Chuck Palahniuk

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. — George Herbert

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish. — Jaida Jones

I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake. — Jenny Han

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great. — Cher

Only a foolish soul would love the stars. As beautiful as they are, they will burn you. Regardless of your best intentions. — Kendal Rob

Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright. — Mark Lawrence

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise. — Don Bradley

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions. — Daymond John

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. — Fuxi

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. — George S. Patton Jr.

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted — Janette Oke

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Alec Guinness

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. — Arthur Helps

Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same. — Marissa Meyer

Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another. — Phoenix Desmond

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. — Anne Desclos

I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection. — Jon Lellenberg

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46 — Walter Isaacson

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. — Lemuel K. Washburn

It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers. — Isobelle Carmody

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. — Jean De La Fontaine

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies. — Jacques Ranciere

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me. — Sun Myung Moon

The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives. — Christine De Pizan

I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that. — Robin LaFevers

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity. — J. P. Vinluca

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. — Neil Gaiman

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

It is better to appear foolish serving God than to appear wise serving the devil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. — Timothy Zahn

Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. — Evan Esar

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami

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

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion! — Marie Corelli

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish. — Michelle Moran

Elizabeth remembered how foolish everyone had felt when they discovered Mr. Mercandy was the victim of a stroke and not a zombie as they'd thought. — Francine Pascal