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.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

The magi, as you know, were wise men–wonderfully wise men–who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones,...

None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.

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...

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

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

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...

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own

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

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the...

Foolishness is simply self inflicted misery.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try...

Royse Bergon: “I’ve seen your integrity in action. It…widened my world. I’d been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men’s hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him....

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the ‘conditioning’ of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the...

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

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

Luthicer hummed. “You’re either brave or very foolish.” “What’s the difference?” (Eric)

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of...

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

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...

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...

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których...

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond’s shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

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

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

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

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

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...

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful]...

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

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

I put the hop in IHOP, and jumped on my pan of pancakes and then on to Panama. That’s standard government issued foolishness right there.

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

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

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

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.