If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart and passing over all the foolish and frivolous and weak things that you can't help dimly seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful radiant belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.
. . . it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
