#foolish

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish. ↗

— Julie Walters

#approve #believed #father #felt #foolish

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. ↗

— George Will

#behave #foolishly #freedom #freedom means #means

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#believe #come #europe #foolish #good

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. ↗

— Horace

#foolishly #gay #good #good thing #once

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. ↗

— Golda Meir

#against #anything #bear #children #discriminated

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#did #ever #except #foolish #nobody

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ↗

— George Orwell

#balance #fair #foolish #fun #get

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#foolishly #i #just #made #okay