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Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.


Thomas Vernor Smith
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.


Iain Glen
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.


James Russell Lowell
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.


Paddy Ashdown
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It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.


Dusty Springfield
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.


Epictetus
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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.


Nelson Mandela
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.


Herodotus
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Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.


Tiger Woods
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.


Cher
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.


John Maynard Keynes
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.


Ezra Taft Benson
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.


Epictetus
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken
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As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.


Tony Bennett
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.


George S. Patton
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
William John Wills
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
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This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
George Ripley
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If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
Daymond John
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!
Melissa Rivers
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I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
Steve Lacy
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
Tariq Ali
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Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
Caspar Weinberger
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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
Joe Klein
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You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
Paul Hogan
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It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
Jennifer Beals
We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
Frei Otto