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Foolishness Quotes (page 7)

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Georgia O'Keeffe
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. Charles Spurgeon
G. I. Gurdjieff quote: "Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery...."
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. G. I. Gurdjieff
Jane Austen quote: "Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness..."
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
Love makes men foolish. I speak as a victim myself. We are taken out of our own care and then it remains to be seen only if fate will show to us some share of mercy. Or little. Or none. Cormac McCarthy
Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to drink from an empty glass I must remember whether I have drained it or not. Cormac McCarthy
John F. Kennedy quote: "Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the..."
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside John F. Kennedy
Herman Hesse quote: "Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever..."
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. Herman Hesse
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. Henry David Thoreau
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red. Zora Neale Hurston
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. Bertrand Russell
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote; Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast* with thee alone*: But my five wits* nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man*, Thy proud... William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo quote: "Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. Victor Hugo
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes. Jean Cocteau
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place..."
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. Chuck Palahniuk

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