Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

- Cher

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

- Elia Kazan

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

- Dermot Mulroney

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

- Dusty Springfield

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

- Daniel Ellsberg

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

- Douglas Alexander

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

- Dave Matthews

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

- Carroll Quigley

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

- Craig Bruce

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

- Aeschylus

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

- Charles Baudelaire

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

- Bruce Nordstrom

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

- Barry Goldwater

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

- Alec Guinness

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

- Anne McCaffrey

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.

- Ashwin Sanghi

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

- Anatole France

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

- Ambrose Bierce