O The irony of man, he thinks his past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage...

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we...

We find our own way to right action, and tread it as we go. He who tells his neighbour what he, the neighbour, should do in given circumstances is a fool. He does not and he cannot know. ‘If I were you’ is a silly beginning to any remark. You are not, and you never...

The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch

To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on the breeze, to close your mouth to the delicacies of nourishment, to close your hands to the feel of luxury,...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great...

Wisdom… is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for...

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion.

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people’s vanity and foolishness.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who’d caused the pain to heal it

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a...

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato battaglia. E se fra voi c’è qualcuno che si sente abbastanza matto da voler diventare scrittore, gli consiglio va’ avanti,...

Fikiria kwanza maana ya unachosema. Halafu sema.

He’s acting as foolish as a kitten… but then, everyone’s entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

Don’t fool yourself by look so humblewhereas the thing you want is respect.

Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn’t said anything of his own.