foolish

In fact, they had never done it. But the foolish man believed. However, he did not give up his mind.

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game.

lure, entice, inveigle, decoy, tempt, seduce These verbs mean to lead or attempt to lead into a wrong or foolish course, as of action.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

It's careless of me to make such a foolish mistake.

Choosing to give it up for something you think is "better" is a foolish thing to do.

It would only be foolish to ask a man like him for help.

He's happy to play and he wants to play, so it would be foolish of me to not use him.

Foolish of me? It's a little foolish of this guy, don't you think? Right? Right?

" the ants said: " If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

If I were you, I would not make such a foolish decision.

The tricky troublemaker thought it a clever trick, but it turned out to be a very foolish one.

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

and often are foolish enough to let the adolescents see that they are annoyed.

alone. It's foolish of him to go alone.

I was foolish enough to imagine the memory of her mother might disarm him from desiring her injury.

You know I have kept everything as dark as possible up to the present, for it is foolish to talk first and fall afterwards.

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

I don't remember how much I love to cry and why on earth am I on this earth. All I know is how stupid and foolish I am.

Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him foolish boy.

Everyone told him he was being foolish, but he stuck to his guns and did as he planned.

It was foolish of you to take a taxi when you could easily walk here in five minutes.

It was really foolish of him to barter away his bicycle for this cheap catapult.

It's foolish of him to do such a thing.

" And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. " Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

Foolish, silly boy! And there! he trembles, as if I were really going to touch him!

And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It was foolish of her to say such a thing.

It's foolish of him to go alone. =He was foolish to go alone.

In retrospect, it was foolish of me to think I could belong to a country I had no memories of and had only visited sporadically.

A foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but a wise consistency is often essential to enlarging the mind.

Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

The majority of the NBA fans believe that the comparisons are foolish and that Jordan is still much better than Kobe.

As it turned out, the best of these foolish acts, and the best told, was the one recounted by the tall, large man.

It's foolish of him to do so.

It's very foolish of you to believe what he said.

It annoyed her because it seemed foolish and also because some of the harsh criticism directed at him fell on her.

Perhaps I might be a foolish man who can keep my just fighting. But I don't know any other ways to live this life.

Carrier oils are often mistakenly thought to be of less importance than essential oils, but it would be foolish to think this.

He thought love was one thing more foolish than 'A HAPPY CHIRSTMAS'.

Snuggling up to a fully grown male lion seems foolish enough. To then climb on its back is surely suicide.

Had you told me the matter earlier, I would not have done the foolish things.

So, while this is called a "Greek bailout" , it is in effect just as much about bailing out the foolish lenders in France and Germany.

But it has been losing money for a while, and its board decided that it was foolish to keep throwing good money after bad.

Present each argument fairly and objectively, rather than trying to make it look foolish.

Legend has it that it began when a youth's rude and foolish behavior resulted in the death of his mother.

The traditional, orthodox Christian view was that man was created perfect, innocent, foolish and happy, living naked in the Garden of Eden.

You think Simon is a fool because he gave money to a beggar? You can talk, you've done some pretty foolish things yourself!

It was foolish of you to leave school.

They say, "But this is me, you know. It would be foolish for me to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self. "

If a man with TWO years of education could make this work, we would be considered foolish not to try it.

there was no way it could have wafted from another house. My boyfriend denied smelling the breakfast, making me feel pretty foolish.

John came out with a foolish remark which annoyed his old uncle.

So to try to say what the impact on the next few centuries is going to be at this stage I think is really foolish.

When I finish my writing, do you think I shall be so foolish as father and drop it into the horrid postman's bag?

If you try to bring up the matter again, you will be very foolish.

Gawk - is often used to show disapproval and means to look at someone or something in a foolish way especially with your mouth open.

When the tea came in, their spokesman said they recognized that they had been a foolish enterprise.

It's foolish of him to have done so.

but if otherwise, accept me even as if I were foolish, that I also may boast a little.

They were nevertheless so foolish that they entertained the delusion that it is possible to reason with demented persons.

Weed, however, did not think his proposal was foolish. He began to build support for General Taylor among Whig politicians.

That will be very foolish of him.

Twenty years ago, this background would itself have seemed a dream for anyone foolish enough to be trying to fish the Cheonggyecheon.

a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.

It was foolish of him to go alone.

and was known as the Foolish Old Man of North Mountain.

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

I think it's foolish of her to let pass such a fine opportunity to go abroad.

Has been trying to say is: Superman is not masked, but his girlfriend would Leng Shimei to recognize him, myopia, or foolish do it?

But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

It's easy for you to be wise after the event, and tell me that I was foolish to stay in that hotel.

It was foolish of you to take a taxi when you could easily walk there in five minutes.

But it seemed just as likely that they were other routes in and out of the chamber. To retreat back up the tunnel seemed foolish. . .

It was foolish of me not to think of all that; but I am disappointed.

" They then said in derision: " If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

It's very foolish of him to do that.

These recent weeks of speculation have made me realise that my heart is at this football club, and I'd be foolish to leave at this time.

It would be foolish to let such an opportunity slip, it is the chance of a lifetime.

A man who hasn't yet found a woman smart enough to understand him and foolish enough to admire him.

I wish that pie was on the end of your foolish nose, said the old woman.

There is no doubt that his way is foolish.

David Cameron, who made much of his championship of green causes at the last election, has also been made to look foolish.

That said, I reserve the right to resubmit my examination paper if Europe's leaders are foolish enough to let the euro zone sink.

The full moon was out and a foolish thief was getting ready to rob an old man's house.

Foolish not to call you care, you should be some cold, Do not easy to pay sincere.

You think you are clever; on the contrary, I assure that you are very foolish.

'No, no, I cannot. Don't insist, don't. I don't love you, so it would be foolish, 'she said with a laugh.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

She was pleasant, even cheerful, but there was a leaden weight in her heart as she realized how foolish she had been.

It's foolish of him to go alone.

To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed to a razor.

For one word a man is often deemed to be foolish or wise.

It's foolish of you to have left the door unlocked.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

His position was becoming rather foolish. Perhaps he had misunderstood Madame Olenska--perhaps she had not invited him after all.

But foolish as it was to write him off a few weeks ago, it would be equally mistaken to imagine all is plain sailing from now on it.

It's foolish of him to give up without trying.

A foolish man tells his wife to stop talking, but a wise man tells she looks extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

Foolish that I am to raise a question of it, since we have found such an Eden . . .

Say again next door: Favour, was hanged first, hit the past to you again a little while, came on the side of me foolish B!

The concern (posed by the Economist piece) that this proposed ban would be might be "misunderstood abroad, " seems foolish.

It was as if a flock of foolish sheep placed themselves under the protection of a pack of ravening wolves.

He looked at me as if I were foolish.

It's not like him to have done such a foolish thing.

who spend their lives chasing the big deal, or trying to mass a lot of money to get into a big deal, but to me that is foolish.

Dad said: silly boy, what's the matter with you foolish?

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that! '

Always be wise enough to know that you do not know everything , Foolish enough to believe in miracles.

Fat , Foolish, Ugly, Clumsiness, Your host chide and laugh you , But you aren't inaudibility . You think of that it is praise!

She stood to her resolve, and with a foolish conceit of her own skill rushed on her fate.

I hurried out in a foolish state of dread, and said to Joseph: `The master wishes you to take him a light and rekindle the fire.

It's foolish of her to say that.

He had a dream and he took chances (even foolish chances, he admitted) to achieve that dream.

They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time.

It was foolish of him to go jogging so soon after his operation. That was the kiss of death.

The salesman said the car was in good condition, and I was foolish enough to fall for it.

You oughtn't to have spent all that money on such a foolish thing.

I feel it foolish of him to believe such a man.

He gave his mother much pain by acting in such a foolish way.

It is foolish of him to set himself to perform am impossibility.

"You foolish fellow! " said the fox. "Why didn't you think of how to get out before you jumped in? Look before you leap next time. "

It's foolish of me to make such a mistake.

Though some hardier souls say that in bad times people need the arts even more (and I agree), we would be foolish not to be concerned.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Trying to claim relationship with the rich d'Urbervilles seemed so foolish and shameful to her.

"They're foolish to strike in this sort of weather, " he thought to himself. "Let 'em win if they can, though. "

He thought, "This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people what to do and what not to do. "

But if he is walking on both legs, hurrying to take a train, or sitting at his desk working, do not ask him that foolish question.

The United States would be foolish, he said, not to do the same.

Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own?

Second, no respectable Chinese executive would be caught dead without a wristwatch, and I would look foolish without one.

I thought, "These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD , the requirements of their God. "

It would be very foolish of the musician to go overboard about pop music .

However, this did not prevent us from advising some countries not to do foolish things since they have failed many times.

He's really a very clever man, though sometimes he seems to be rather foolish .

It's foolish of you to ask such questions.

It was foolish of her to marry that man.

Or am I, indeed, foolish to ask, and not rather to take whatever good comes to me in whatever way form the gods?

He thought it was foolish to build pantheon-like office buildings and said that only CEOs who spent other people's money did that.

Today, I stand here, I have no reasons for stopping. It's my duty. Foolish men will laugh at me. But I don't care.

It's foolish of her to sacrifice her career to marry him.

Conservatives are right to be irritated by foolish liberal claims that America does not face any hard choices in fighting terrorism.

Yet it would be foolish to expect much in the way of improvements from any of these approaches.

It would be foolish to say that proper time management and planning is unnecessary in adulthood.

It was foolish of me not to have gone earlier to my doctor.

The " culture" of a word: an army without culture is a foolish army, and foolish army cannot defeat the enemy!

He wore a visible sidearm as a warning to anyone foolish enough to question the extent of his authority.

The Dutch do not ask personal questions and will refuse to answer should you be foolish enough to intrude on their privacy.

I wasn't, however, foolish enough to have waded into a swamp alone.

As a result of the current crisis, much of that innovation now seems foolish or even criminal.

Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company's expenses; it's just being penny wise and pound foolish .

Desdemona. All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds! If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets.

The book, he said in his commencement address at Stanford in 2005, ends with the admonition "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. "

Football stadium of UT. It was almost empty then. Now my foolish boat is leaning broken lovelorn on her rocks.

On the basis of these examples, it would be foolish to suggest that the French language is ungrammatical.

She is too foolish. All carry the weight in his possession, do not know how to put aside.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

One day, the Foolish Old Man of put the whole family together to discuss the removal of the two big mountains.

And Ihave always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stayhungry, stay foolish.

Trying to witness without prayer is like trying to water-ski in a shallow pond or lake. It's not only foolish; it's dangerous.

The king was a man of sense, and he grew tired of hearing such foolish speeches.

Sometimes trying to do so would be foolish.

Trying to master these techniques overnight while learning the futures game is foolish.

One night in December, Bob Reich said it seemed foolish for Frank to risk jail when there was so much he could do out of the country.

Right now, it may be a form of analysis too, and one we would be foolish to ignore.

They say it is foolish enough to jump, but it is madness to have to pay for it.

"Dear me" , said the old minister to himself, "Am I foolish or unfit for my office? "

Some of the newcomers may even be foolish enough to try to govern on the basis of their theory.

He went on educating and wounding her, a thing rather foolish in one whose admiration for his pupil and victim was apt to grow.

You were foolish to believe what he said.

That's foolish just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

I think it foolish of him to believe her.

The idea of a "network bank" with a light presence in many countries is not, in itself, foolish.

It's not like her to be so foolish.

Do you think if your girlfriend knew how you felt, she would agree that it would be "foolish" to end the relationship?

If I'd spoken up and the couple turned out to last, I would have felt foolish or awkward.

Who did not in childhood did a single half piece of the foolish?

She was alienated from her friend by her foolish behavior.

It's foolish of her to give up this chance.

He is really a very clever man, though sometimes he seems to be rather foolish.

'Bah! Humbug! 'said Scrooge. 'Humbug! 'was a word Scrooge loved to use about anything he thought stupid or foolish. 'Go away! Go away! '

It surprises me that you , all men, should be so foolish .

We would be foolish, as a small and open economy, to try to gain competitiveness through the currency.

Putting my phone in my shirt pocket quickly and carelessly caused an accidental pocket dial to my boss, and I felt a little foolish.

This would be a foolish intervention into the details of credit contracts that have all the defects of usury laws.

It was foolish of them to believe that the Creator would not step in and say, enough is enough!

In reality, it would be foolish to make such a snap judgment without further investigation. . . but the technique does have some merit.

This big fellow isn't foolish both, a words don't say, and slowly and future the noodles draws off and left the menace of that bayonet.

It was a dangerously foolish area to which they pinned down a major portion of US military power.

You're foolish enough to base your hopes upon his promise.

But I'm not strong at all! ' she cried miserably. ' Ask Julia! She'll tell you - I'm weak, and foolish! '

I cannot think of a strategic decision where rushing to judgment would be more foolish.

I just realised that there was more to life than hanging about the streets and being foolish.

It's beyond me why she did such a foolish thing.

It's foolish of you to make such a mistake.

A xing, the foolish girl, must be very disappointed if she knows you still have your ex-girlfriend in you heart.

Its meaning lies in the fact that regardless of a woman beauty or ugly, smart or foolish.

But they were swimming against the tide , unable to make much headway against a pervasive and, in retrospect, foolish complacency .

She managed to restrain him from taking such a foolish step.

But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

It was foolish of you to pick a fight with a heavyweightboxing champion!

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind is prone, no superhuman genius is required.

After all, we're not murderers, no matter what that corpse valet dreams up in his foolish head.

He is not so foolish as you think.

This story means: Only a foolish man will give up the litter profit which he has and seek uncertain future large profits.

It's foolish to think you're gonna live for ever, but I do think I'm going to live until I die.

For my money, though, I think there are at least two reasons why it would be foolish simply to deride or ignore Gata.

We were foolish and heedless, and you were right to break it off.

It would be foolish and impetuous to resign over such a trivial matter.

The child's foolish questions irritated his mother a lot.

It is foolish of him not to accept your advice.

Forgive me for all the foolish things I said.

Never mind that foolish GIRL, Villefort, " said the marquise. " She will soon get over these things.

Exercising for a week and then quitting because there are no visible changes is foolish and short sighted.

Since this time, Ah, you stupid really stupid and foolish brother and your long, respectively, the Sun does not feast!

No longer would she slave for her cruel stepmother and her foolish step sisters.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

It's foolish of you to put it up.

Connect together. Seven treasures saw foolish, even if the microprocessor also has no so exact.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaker.

How foolish of me, don't you think?

'I should think you were with your foolish ways, ' said Mrs Jones.

Runt, you want ~only darling of, determine of foolish at me don't falter nearby. You weren't a robber, didn't seize anyone's happiness.

Recently, I was foolish enough to take one of those magazine quizzes on "romantic marriage" .

But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left.

You remember well the result of that foolish announcement.

It surprises me that you, of all people, should be so foolish.

Sir George Staunton admitted, that he had been so foolish as to eat ice, which sometimes disagreed with him.

When he appeared to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, he calls them "foolish ones" and "slow of heart to believe" (Luke 24: 25).

And now the cockchafer who had flown off with little Thumbelina thought he had been rather foolish to admire her. He looked at her again.

When I grow up, I will remain as foolish as you think I'm now.

Yet it would be just as foolish to ignore the just as pressing present dangers.

Because scientists know it's foolish to try to predict the direction of a flu pandemic.

Some people might call that foolish, but I was so determined to reach my goal that I wasn't going to let fatigue or illness stop me.

He tried to fence off the consequences of his foolish act.

MONEO: Be quiet, you foolish girl! You know nothing of such things.

Scientists in front, hold the power of the bureaucratic politicians still use their foolish pride to block the truth revealed.

Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

It's really foolish of you to say that.

Ignorant, insensitive and foolish they found nothing at all to cling to in their hollow, is not broken out, nor perish Only the slow decay.

It's very foolish of me to have said that in public.

Yet he would surely be foolish to leave the kisha club alone.

Don't try to convince me with such foolish ideas; I will not be cheated again.

It would be foolish for you to behave like that.

I advised her to give up the foolish idea.

A wise man spends his money prudently; a foolish man spends his without thought and is soon penniless. He is 'parted' from his money .

It was foolish of you to spend so much.

Mrs. Rushworth was that kind of woman: foolish, vain, and clandestine by nature.