Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (said in 1888).
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.