Welcome to Foolish Quotes, where we dive into the realms of wit, absurdity, and sometimes outright folly. Quotes, in their brevity, have a unique ability to encapsulate complex ideas, express profound wisdom, or, in some cases, reveal sheer foolishness. In this collection, we explore the lighter side of human thought, showcasing quotes that range from whimsical and humorous to downright nonsensical.
From renowned figures to anonymous jesters, foolishness knows no bounds, permeating all facets of life. Whether these quotes are the result of intentional humor, genuine misunderstanding, or simply a lapse in judgment, they provide moments of levity and amusement in our everyday discourse. So, prepare to embark on a journey through the delightful world of foolish quotes, where laughter and curiosity await at every turn.
Below, you’ll find an assortment of quotes on this topic. Feel free to copy them, overlay them onto images, or even experiment with stylish fonts to add your own creative flair. Let’s embrace the absurd and revel in the joy of folly. Enjoy!
I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly. Momo Hirai
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. George Orwell
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman
I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men. George Eliot
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. Jane Austen
Woman is always fickle – foolish is he who trusts her. Francis I
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. Oscar Wilde
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me! Andie MacDowell
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton
In investing, you get what you don’t pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, and they will stay the course. And they won’t be foolish enough to think that they can consistently outsmart the market. John C. Bogle
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. Josiah Gilbert Holland
We can’t afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We’ve got to get it done. The future, the health, the life – our nation depends on it and it’s just foolish to think or act otherwise. LeVar Burton
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Sydney J. Harris
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. Daniel Day-Lewis
I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn’t active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I was black and I was a woman. And I know now that sounds really foolish, but I had different priorities. Candace Owens
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. Cher
If you don’t educate yourself, you’ll never get out of the starting block because you’ll spend all your money making foolish decisions. Daymond John
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? Alec Guinness
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. Thomas Babington Macaulay
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been. William Golding
The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway. W. Edwards Deming
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. Theodore C. Sorensen
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. Louis Farrakhan
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. Tiger Woods
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants. William John Wills
I lost my club through a series of circumstances and bad luck. The whole banking system collapsing and my foolish bravery didn’t help. Simon Jordan
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. Horace
I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it. Jeanette MacDonald
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’ Ashton Kutcher
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Alice Walker
In a storm, I think, ‘What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?’ John Wesley
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. Martin Luther
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare
Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. John Ruskin
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. Jim Rohn
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. Jean de La Fontaine
It’s foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya. Ashwin Sanghi
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. John Updike
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. Timothy Zahn
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. Herodotus
Now we’ve gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish. Isaac Brock
It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on. Bruce Nordstrom
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God’s enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke. Thomas Becket
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
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
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. Ezra Taft Benson
Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market. Tyson Fury
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman
I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did – I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are. Ada Lovelace
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. Charles Spurgeon
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. H. L. Mencken
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Nelson Mandela
Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot. Lemmy
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. J. Philippe Rushton
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
Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite – and because of – your flaws. Jewell Parker Rhodes
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. Friedrich August von Hayek
Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‘Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?’ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds. Charles Bukowski
I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way. Kim Kardashian
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they’re not foolish enough to believe that it’s because of faith that they get good exam results. Richard Dawkins
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Karl Kraus
You don’t have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you’re younger you don’t want to look a fool, so you don’t do things that might make you vulnerable. Tom Wilkinson
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Wallace Stevens
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
If you come on a band tense, you’re going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come. Charlie Parker
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth’s problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest. Martin Rees
I am aware of the depths of heartache I’m experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are permanent. They’re not. Ryan Adams
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. John Maynard Keynes
‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, ‘These Foolish Things’, by Deborah Moggach. Tena Desae
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant. Mira Nair
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won. Paul Craig Roberts
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no? Christopher Lee
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine. Barry Goldwater
Maybe Drudge is more entertainer than reporter. I imagine he enjoys baiting the mainstream media, then watching it look foolish when his story is debunked. Donna Brazile
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. Abbie Hoffman
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch. Bill Bryson
Where ignorance is bliss it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor’s newspaper. Kin Hubbard
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish. Arne Glimcher
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. Thomas Shepard
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France
