#foolish

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

— Herodotus

#given #mob #more #nothing #outrage

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

#always #become #different #distorted #express

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#almost #answer #anything #done #earth

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#borrow #foolish #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #neighbor

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#break #civilization #completely #down #enough

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

— Paddy Ashdown

#high #representative #way #who #worked

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#folly #foolish #likes #people #sometimes

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

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. ↗

— John McCarthy

#foolishness #information #intelligence #lack #matter

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

#every #every time #experience #foolish #guests