It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
Tori Amos
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
Kelly Bishop
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi