To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
A foolish man. . . built his house upon the sand.
. . . Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped. . . Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
The least foolish is wise.
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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.
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
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.
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.