- Nov 07, 2020
Foolish Quotes
Sharp lines on folly, arrogance, and misplaced confidence.
This page gathers pointed observations about foolish behavior, including comfort in complacency and the risks of overestimating one's audience. For a related take on cleverness gone wrong, see the Fool quotes page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all do make foolish mistakes.
- No Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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- Nov 07, 2020
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020