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  • Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  • Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.

    Kenneth D. Wald, Allison Calhoun-Brown (2007). “Religion and Politics in the United States”, p.369, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

    Courage   Bravery   Nine  
  • We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

  • There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  • I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

    "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.
  • The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

  • My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

    Stars   Father   Names  
  • There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

    Growth   Way   Grows  
    Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, Harvard Business Press
  • And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

    Heart   Men   Hair  
  • Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

  • Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

    War   Mean   Men  
  • I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

    Thinking   Play   Littles  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

    Dark   People   Forgiving  
  • The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

    Fighting   Males   Want  
    Source: collider.com
  • It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

  • The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

    Men   Brave   Coward  
    Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.54
  • Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books
  • The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.

    "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 38, 1949.
  • Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

    Children   Brave   Secret  
    P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.20, Vintage
  • It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

    Loss   Average   Mind  
    Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
  • I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

    Jane Campion (1993). “The piano”, Miramax
  • It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

  • Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

    Soul   Glitter   Duncan  
    Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”
  • There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

    Jobs   Stupid   Rams  
  • The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

    Risk   Trying   Sound  
  • It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.

    Father   Government   Two  
    "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 7, (p. 134), 1969.
  • The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  • My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

    Source: www.slate.com
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