Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action

A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.”

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it’s foolish to expect the other person to do that.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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.

If death causes you no pain when you’re dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

It is foolish to turn off a tried friend because of a failing or two, for you may get rid of a one-eyed nag and buy a blind one.

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer

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.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.