#foolish

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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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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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ↗

— William Osler

#become #foolishness #next #philosophies #tomorrow

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#been #century #education #fads #failed

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. ↗

— Cardinal De Retz

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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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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly. ↗

— Glenn Ford

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