#foolishness

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. ↗

— Golda Meir

#against #anything #bear #children #discriminated

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

#foolishness #nose-poking #business

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools ↗

— Gene Brown

#intelligence #intelligence

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

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

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

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

— John McCarthy

#foolishness #information #intelligence #lack #matter

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ↗