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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. – Alexandre Dumas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light – Maurice Freehill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose. – Dane Helmers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. – Dee W. Hock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. – Russell Hoban	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. – Jean de la Bruyere	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there. – Andrew Mercer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – George Smith Patton, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. – Jeanne-Marie Roland	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers. – C. Ryland	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. – John Swinton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. – Quintilian	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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