- Mustache
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.
- Grumble
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
- Nov 07, 2020
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should engage with ideas that they disagree with rather than silencing anything that challenges their worldview.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020