Foolish Quotes - Page 8

• Un hombre sabio saca más provecho de sus enemigos que un tonto de sus amigos.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Inspiración, Sabiduría, Conocimiento

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• As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Personas

  William Stanley Jevons (1880). “Political Economy”

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• A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Broken, Ethics, Morality

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• I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Wise, Strong, Sadness

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• Entreno muy duro, hasta enfermar. A veces entreno como un tonto que no tiene cabeza.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Men, Foolish Man, Sick

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• Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Government, Opposites

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• It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

  John Gardner

  Fall, Order, Long

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.110, Vintage

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• Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

  Neil Gaiman

  La vida es

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.185, A&C Black

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• My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Effort, Speech

  H.L. Mencken (2011). “My Life as Author and Editor”, p.29, Vintage

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• El [ajedrez] es un recurso tonto para hacer creer a los ociosos que están haciendo algo muy inteligente, cuando sólo están perdiendo el tiempo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vida, Inteligente, Estúpida

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). "Obras completas de George Bernard Shaw: Obras de teatro, novelas, artículos, cartas y ensayos: Pigmalión, La profesión de la señora Warren, Cándida, Las armas y el hombre, El hombre y Supermán, César y Cleopatra, Androcles y el león, Los artículos de guerra del New York Times, Recuerdos de Oscar Wilde y mucho más", p.912, e-artnow

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• Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drink, Feels, Toms

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• Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

  John Updike

  Facts, Scribbles, Bases

  "The Early Stories: 1953-1975".

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• You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

  "The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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• Hacer el ridículo hace bien al espíritu. La necesidad de no parecer tonto es una de las muchas cargas de la juventud; a medida que envejecemos nos vamos eximiendo de más y más.

  John Updike

  Doe, Needs, Looks

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.250, Random House

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• Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

  Janette Oke

  Wise, People, Causes

  Janette Oke (1990). “Father of My Heart”, Bethany House Pub

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• You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Morning, Children

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey (illustrated)”, p.90, Osmora Incorporated

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• If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Dancing, Laughing

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• Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

  Albert Camus

  Doors, Attention, World

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• La edad es tonta y olvidadiza cuando subestima a la juventud.

  J. K. Rowling

  Edad, Alfareros, Juventud

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• A un hombre nacido sin conciencia, un hombre con alma debe parecerle ridículo. Para un criminal, la honestidad es una tontería. No debes olvidar que un monstruo es sólo una variación, y que para un monstruo la norma es monstruosa.

  John Steinbeck

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). "Al este del Edén", p.66, Penguin

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• I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

  Mary Ruefle

  Estudiar

  Mary Ruefle (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.46, Wave Books

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• Hasta una vieja tonta como yo sabe que los vagos no piensan por sí mismos; sólo piensan en sí mismos.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Lazy People, Like Me

  Terry Goodkind (2015). "La sangre del pliegue", p.88, RosettaBooks

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

  Epictetus

  Stupid, Choices, Wish

  Epictetus (2012). "The Handbook of Epictetus", p.6, Simon and Schuster.

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• And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

  Shannon Hale

  Struggle, Sadness, Saws

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• Amor, pensé abstraído. No 'Esto es amor' o '¿Es esto amor? Ni una frase, ni una certeza, ni un pensamiento con partes móviles o dirección. Sólo amor, todo ello, tal y como es. Si es suficiente o no. Si es real o nos lo estamos inventando. No importa lo chapucero que sea, o lo torcido que esté. Sigue siendo extraordinario. Por tonto que sea, por vanidoso que sea. Por mal que termine. El amor.

  Julian Gough

  Real, En Movimiento, Formas

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