One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.
Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.
Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
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.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Only foolish people are completely secure.
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
