foolishness Quotes

“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

topic:love foolishness misery

“Cato . . . used to assert, also, that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

― Plutarch, Parallel Lives

topic:wisdom foolishness

“A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:foolishness faith

“You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

topic:age foolishness

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

― Jane Austen, Emma

topic:happiness foolishness

“You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:foolishness

“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

topic:foolishness weakness

“It is because I was foolish then that I am wise to-day.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

topic:wisdom foolishness

“And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

topic:women foolishness

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