Foolish

Famous quotes containing the word foolish:

“Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“The trees stand in the setting sun,
I in their freckled shade
Regard the cavalcade of sin,
Remorse for foolish action done,
That pass like ghosts regardless, in
A human image made....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)