#foolish

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. ↗

— Robert Burns

#error #foolishness #perception #sense-of-self #perception

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#because #below #century #day #death

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#bitch #cale #fool #foolish #foolishness

In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again. ↗

— Michelle Reid

#stupid-male #virgin-wife #virginity #love

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#french #remorse #respect #respect

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#foolish #little-minds #philosophers #philosophical

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame

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

#antagonistic #around #became #because #clear

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. ↗

— John Clayton

#foolish #guess #i #judgments #like