F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will
“Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Fooles give to please all but their owne.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Foolhardiness shouldn’t be confused for animus.”
Source: In Limbo
“Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.”
“Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.”
“Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.”
“Fooling the Nazis like that made him feel empowered. In his own way, he was fighting back. They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance. Italy was not German. Italy could never be German.”
Source: Beneath a Scarlet Sky
“Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.”
Source: John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
“Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.”
“Foolish heart, hear me calling. Stop before you start falling. Foolish heart, heed my warning; you've been wrong before. Don't be wrong anymore.”
“Foolish human. You think a war is won without sacrifice? A crown earned without strife? A kingdom saved without tenacity? Your weakness is not your incompetence or your cowardice. It is your inability to forgive yourself. I have failed, time and again, but so long as I breathe, I will not falter. To live is to persevere. For the world, and in spite of it.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.”
“Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business, namely, his own character and conduct.”
Source: Hope of the Gospel
“Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth.”
“Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.”
“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning precipice? It leads to liberty. You see that flood, that river, that well? Liberty houses within them. You see that stunted, parched, and sorry tree? From each branch liberty hangs. Your neck, your throat, your heart are all so many ways of escape from slavery [...] Do you enquire the road to freedom? You shall find it in every vein of your body.”
“Foolish men are easy to rule.”
Source: For the Wolf
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
“foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.”
Source: Gentle Warrior
“Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.”
“Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.”
“foolish people are like crazy.”
“Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.”
“Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”
Source: The Over-Soul
“Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“Foolish people laugh at things they do not understand, producing the sound of braying donkeys.”
“Foolish people never want to be reminded of how great they can be, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have to be reminded.”
Source: Krampusnacht: Twelve Nights of Krampus
“Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.”
“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”
“Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse
“Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
“Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.”
“Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.”
Source: How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
“Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.”
“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
“Foolishly, he had proclaimed his love for her in front of his friends, and now deeply regretted his words, his vulnerability, his weakness where Samara was concerned. He would never make that mistake again, yet at the same time, he couldn’t stop thinking about her and the kisses they shared. He sensed something was terribly wrong, but he refused to act—refused to humiliate himself further.”
Source: Requiem For A Queen
“Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.”
“Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.”
Source: Wake Unto Me
“Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!”
“Foolishness and unfamiliarity, father many a fear.”
“Foolishness consists in believing you understand what you really don't.”
Source: Decoding Magritte
“Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.”
“Foolishness is contagious.”
“Foolishness is darkness.”
“Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.”
“Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!”