#foolish

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly. ↗

— Russell Baker

#foolishly #good #hear #just #loudly

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

— Herodotus

#given #mob #more #nothing #outrage

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

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#absurd #advice #approach #end #foolish

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#certain #essence #foolish #i #just

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disappointed #foolish #fully #leave #passion

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

— Nelson Mandela

#foolish #heat #off #starts #turn