Full, foolish. [ German Proverb ]

Fair and foolish. [ Proverb ]

Penny wise, pound foolish. [ Burton ]

The least foolish is wise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Foolish fear doubles danger. [ Proverb ]

Riches allow one to be foolish. [ Horace ]

Empty chambers make foolish maids. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]

Foolish tongues talk by the dozen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Know that nothing can so foolish be
As empty boldness. [ George Herbert ]

Graves they say are warmed by glory;
Foolish words and empty story. [ Heine ]

Too many giddy, foolish hours are gone. [ Rowe ]

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. [ Twelfth Night ]

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Superstition: a foolish fear of the Deity. [ La Bruyere ]

Old fools are more foolish than young ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think. [ Cowper ]

Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity. [ Proverb ]

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. [ Cowley ]

A great mans foolish sayings pass for sentences. [ Proverb ]

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild. [ Crabbe ]

The labour is foolish that is bestowed on trifles. [ Mart ]

As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. [ Moliere ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. [ Lowell ]

He that demands, misseth not, unless his demands be foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever. [ Proverb ]

It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. [ Franklin ]

It is a foolish bird that stays the laying salt upon her tail. [ Proverb ]

He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. [ Syr ]

To be despised is more galling to a foolish man than to be whipped.

He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. [ Juv ]

He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very wise. [ Montaigne ]

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. [ Addison ]

To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise. [ Montesquieu ]

The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [ Yriarte ]

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. [ Johnson, of Goldsmith ]

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]

A foolish superstition introduces the influences of the gods even in the smallest matters. [ Livy ]

From Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal, in my estimation, is man. [ Boileau ]

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. [ Mme. Roland ]

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. [ W. R. Alger ]

How wayward is this foolish love, that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies. [ Sydney Smith ]

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? [ Seneca ]

Talk not to me of the wisdom of women, - I know my own sex well; the wisest of us all are but little less foolish than the rest. [ Mary, Queen of Scots ]

At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say. [ Confucius ]

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]

He who without discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest among the foolish ones, and this in either case, (i.e. in denying as well as affirming. [ Dante ]

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end? [ Cicero ]

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]

There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. [ Macaulay ]

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken are more potent. [ Bacon ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. [ Epictetus ]

There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. [ Joubert ]

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth. [ Tupper ]

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. [ Cicero ]

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinction? [ Jeffrey ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

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. [ La Bruyere ]

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. [ Colton ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]