Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.
To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.