Best Foolery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn't make them love you, instead, they'll see you as a little child, trying to draw a senseless picture on a piece of paper, begging people to look at it and admire it by force. You can persuade someone to look at your face, but you can't persuade them to see the beauty therein.”

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.”

Reputation Foolery

Book:Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.”

Theft Vice Silliness Self Sabotage Foolery

Book:Jakob von Gunten

Source: Jakob von Gunten

“चक्र! ऐसा जीवन तो विडंबना है, जिसके लिये रात-दिन लड़ना पड़े!”

Life Battle Hindi Foolery

Book:स्कंदगुप्त

Source: स्कंदगुप्त

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Arrogance Pretentiousness Foolery

Author:Romans 1:22

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. ― Hermann Hesse”

Wisdom Foolery

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The ego is so powerful it takes the course for or against, pro or con, to it's bodily host. If we are not presently aware of it's seductive nature, it makes a fool of prideful ignorance.”

Ignorance Pride Fool Ego Foolish Quotes To Live By Foolery Egoic Foolish Pride

Author:T.F. Hodge

“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”

World Littles Atheism Positive Atheism Foolery

Book:Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

World Want Soul Home Joy Passion Pleasure Creative Gold Noise Creative Work Foolery

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”

Men Shows Wise Amount Small Amounts Foolery

Author:William Shakespeare

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

Doe Walks Sun Shining Orbs Foolery

Book:Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will

“My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.”

Soul Sin Lord Enemy Laughing My Soul Foolery

Book:Morning & Evening

Source: Morning & Evening

“Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.”

Men Littles Different Bits Sound Justice Fine Little Bit Let Me Foolish One Man Hidden Meaning Foolery

Author:Hermann Hesse

“That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.”

Thinking Should Conversation Quitting Trifles Shameful Presence Of God God's Presence Foolery

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims

“If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.”

Ifs Men Stills Spiritual Individual Ambition Eternal Ideals Ultimate Competition Enjoyment Materialism Eternal Life Foolery

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.”

Wells Persons Long Art Book Matter Culture Reading Found Interest Simple Saws Heard Youth Wit Comic Spokes Comic Book Pauses Idleness Pacific Malaise Foolery

Author:Paul Theroux