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  • Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

    Art   Islands   House  
  • I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

    Brain   Bears   Foolish  
    A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.37, Egmont UK
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

    Freedom   Stupid   Mind  
    Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”
  • Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

    Funny   Wise   Humor  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5
  • Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

    Funny   Wise   Wisdom  
  • All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

  • Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”
  • So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.

    Wall   Intelligent   Men  
    "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.
  • Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

    Men   Justice   Sound  
  • Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.

    Men   Fire   Order  
  • Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

    Wise   Medicine   Long  
  • To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

    People   Use   Stones  
  • You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

  • The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  • An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

    Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer by the Sea”, p.176, Harlequin
  • Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

    "The Frontiers of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1986.
  • For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

    Dream   Wicked   World  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1324, e-artnow
  • Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

    Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”
  • You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

    Worry   Limits   Causes  
    Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.255, Bantam
  • Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

    Growth   Looks   Crowds  
  • Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

    Stupid   White   People  
  • Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

  • All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.

  • Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

    Dozen   Tongue   Foolish  
    George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”
  • Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

    Beautiful   Silly   Men  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International
  • War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

    Sweet   Peace   War  
  • The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

    Beautiful   Wisdom   Men  
  • One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

    Men   Practice   Names  
  • I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

    Wisdom   Fun   Fool  
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