#foolish

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

— Dusty Springfield

#last #marvellous #popular #think #will

You really are being quite foolish to smoke. ↗

— Iain Glen

#foolish #quite #really #smoke #you

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

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. ↗

— Demosthenes

#foolish #known #men #proved #sound

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

#alternative #custodian #foolish #goals #good

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#counsel #easily #err #fool #foolish

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ↗

— Alice Walker

#appear #appearance #avoid #foolish #foolishness

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

#cursing #despises #detests #every #foolish