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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

Love Love Is Curiosity First Love

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Wisdom Knowledge Pain Sun

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

You Soul Value Know

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

People Wish Appearance Fools

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sister Indeed Wickedness

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Moment Serious Your Lovely Silly

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Wisdom Age Tomorrow Yesterday

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Home Sorry Parents Feel

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas New First New Ideas

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Religion Enjoy Practice Understand

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

You Challenges Believe Know

We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

Water Behavior Down Dangerous

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Men Women Children Just

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

Mother Home Humble Dad

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

Heart See Kid Only

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man Favor Discover Him

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Colonel Sanders

Work Children Always About

Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

Believe Nothing Everything Happen

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Humor Sense Changed Making

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Day Discipline Play Creation

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Beauty Man War Courage

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Afrika Bambaataa

Understand Down Slow Try

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

Home You Down Media

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Result Weakness Own Some

There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time.

Wentworth Miller

Myself Me Time People

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Intelligence Matter Information Even

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