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Sentences starting with foolish

Foolish things come to the idle. [11]
Foolish youth, to attempt to take such a heart by surprise and storm! [11]
Foolish woman! [10]

Sentences ending with foolish

I know you won't do anything foolish. [9]
I have been very foolish. [5]
The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish. [11]
Satan noticed these thoughts, and said: "What you are thinking is strictly human-like--that is to say, foolish. [5]
I have been thinking of this ever since, and cannot but think such a notion is utterly foolish. [7]
And pray for the young and the daring and the foolish. [11]
The wishing-carpet of the Arabian Nights was a sensible idea--but our earthly idea of angels flying these awful distances with their clumsy wings was foolish. [5]
But was not that foolish? [10]
Cynthia felt that she was to be of these, though she could not reason why, and she told herself that the feeling was foolish. [9]

Short sentences using foolish

How foolish we were! [5]
How foolish I was! [5]
It is foolish to die. [11]
It is foolish, that! [11]
Hadn't she been foolish? [9]
Won't it sound foolish? [5]
That would be foolish. [5]
It would be foolish. [5]
George was pretty foolish. [11]
It was a foolish ride. [11]

Sentences containing foolish two or more times

Wise men have said more foolish things,--and foolish men, I don't doubt, have said as wise things. [6]
You have good looks, you were born a lady; you have a foolish heart--the fond are foolish. [11]
Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ambitions; their foolish little life is but a laugh, a sigh, and extinction; and they have no sense. [5]
George may have been foolish, but he isn't as foolish as that! [9]

More example sentences with the word foolish in them

But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
Watch yourself, and you will find impulses which, but for the restraints you put upon them, would make you do the same foolish things which you laugh at in that cousin of yours. [6]
I don't say you haven't been foolish, but it's Howard's fault quite as much as yours. [9]
The poorest even would have glass, but home-made--a foolish expense, for the glass soon went to bits, and the pieces turned to no profit. [4]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
I read the words aloud to him, and he laughed, and remarked, "'Tis a foolish thing that--The Scarlet Woman, mast like. [11]
Then she added, with something of an impulse, "After all, it is foolish of me not to tell you. [9]
She was content with her lot; and if any change for the worse were in prospect she would rather not be tormented beforehand by a wise prophet; nor was it better to be deluded by a foolish one. [10]
Then I waked with a cry, but my man was beside me, and his arm was round my neck; and this dream, is it not a foolish dream, my mother? [11]
But if you wish our friendship to continue, give up these foolish attempts to teach tortoises to fly. [10]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
The street lights were reflected in perpendicular, wavy-yellow ribbons on the wet asphalt, and I stood staring with foolish intentness at this phenomenon, wondering how a painter would get the effect in oils. [9]
He thinks you were foolish to take Zeb Meader's side. [9]
I know her well, and mean, with your kind help, to save her from the consequences which her foolish adventure might have brought upon her. [6]
We remember too well the foolish and flippant mockery of Gay's "Life is a Jest. [6]
He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it. [5]
Our first emotion was deep, unutterable gratitude, our next was a foolish rage, born of the suspicion that possibly the hotel had been visible three-quarters of an hour while we sat there in those cold puddles quarreling. [5]
And henceforth he was as foolish as her brothers. [11]
I have been very near to him, and have tried not to worry him or ask many foolish questions. [9]
He is a very knowing young man, but I can't think he is foolish enough, to say nothing of his honesty, to make any false step of the kind you seem to hint. [6]
Only I was very foolish to say I would wait for you. [9]
It was a very foolish thing for him to try to inflict personal punishment on such a lusty young fellow as Abner Briggs, Junior, one of the "hardest customers" in the way of a rough-and-tumble fight that there were anywhere round. [6]
I have been very foolish sometimes. [11]
You would be very foolish if you did not. [11]
How could this vain, foolish sport have pleased her after she had yielded herself, soul and body, to the highest and greatest of men! [10]
Mr. Allen jumped up and exclaimed: "I protest against these foolish irrelevancies. [5]
To have fallen under suspicion of heresy would have been the last thing Barbara expected, and she called it foolish, nay, ridiculous. [10]
Now he said, turning to the priests from Chennu-- "Gagabu is a foolish, hot-headed old man, and you have heard from his lips just such a sermon as the young scribes keep by them when they enter on the duties of the care of souls. [10]
The Syrian hastened towards her, extolling the good fortune that made his sun rise for him a second time that night, but she cut him short with the words; "Cease this foolish love-making. [10]
It's too foolish, to yield to the shadow of an old appetite. [11]
Let none list to this false and foolish matter, upon pain of death, nor discuss the same, nor carry it abroad. [5]
It is easy to talk of perennial youth, and to toy with the flattering fictions which every ancient personage accepts as true so far as he himself is concerned, and laughs at as foolish talk when he hears them applied to others. [6]
The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and then cried out in vexation-- "Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods. [5]
If you were to set these excellently dressed crayfish before a fine horse he would disdain them, and could not understand how foolish men could find anything palatable that tasted so salt. [10]
It was foolish to raise his wishes so high, but he told himself that he had never beheld a woman more to be desired. [10]
But she said to herself that she was foolish, that her love had made her so. [11]
Melissa nodded gratefully to her brother, but Heron remained firm in his assertion that to think of flight would be foolish, or at least premature. [10]
I still believe to have stayed with him would have been a foolish and useless sacrifice . [9]
I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did no good--she is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks, I think. [5]
This was enough to fill his thought with foolish anticipations. [4]
It is foolish to dream, and I had long since ceased to do so. [11]
He was determined to do it himself, because, being a superstitious gentleman, as well as a hunter, he had some foolish notion that this capture would propitiate a goddess whom he imagined required offerings of the kind. [11]
It is foolish to dismiss a man in a temper. [11]
It was foolish to be afraid there, yet still I was; so afraid that I held in and hardly even whimpered, though it would have been such a comfort to whimper, because that eases the pain, you know. [5]
I had to tie my collar on, because there was no button behind on that foolish little shirt which I described a while ago. [5]
The more I thought, the more criminally foolish Nick's journey seemed to me. [9]
If you hadn't thought such foolish things about me, I should never have spoken of my watch up yonder. [10]
Heaven grant that this which I have been compelled to hear may be no more than a fleeting and foolish whim! [10]
Some laughed at this foolish notion; but others, who knew more of the nebulous sciences, told her it was like's not jes' so. [6]
I wanted to think that out; and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but thinking was out of the question in the circumstances. [5]
The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
With one s. There are more foolish people among the Ifs than there are among the Ases. [6]
It was not the way of the people and time, and ended in absurd complications, if anybody was foolish enough to try it. [6]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
All had heard the romance of the Beauty and Castle Yard, and some had listened to Horry Walpole tell that foolish story of Goble at Windsor, on which he seemed to set such store. [9]
He feeds on the madder of his delusion all his days, and his very bones grow red with the glow of his foolish fancy. [6]
He looked at the foolish little woman with so cruel a flash of the eye that she shrank back. [11]
His dress was the extreme of the fantastic; as showy and foolish as the sort of thing an Indian medicine-man wears. [5]
It seems probable that the intimation of personal danger he had received had not been forgotten entirely; though fatally for him, he took a foolish way of showing his remembrance of it. [5]
It was estimated that the current in the cut-off was making about fifteen or twenty miles an hour; twelve or thirteen was the best our boat could do, even in tolerably slack water, therefore perhaps we were foolish to try the cut-off. [5]
He felt sure that she would not let Lurida commit herself by writing foolish letters to the subject of her speculations, or similar indiscreet performances. [6]
I am glad that no possible combination of words could describe them, for I might then be foolish enough to attempt it. [5]
He knew now that he had made a foolish blunder then, that the scheme had been one of his failures; but he had never looked on it as with eyes reproving crime. [11]
The foolish scribblers that deal in them are like bad workmen in a carpenter's shop. [6]
The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns! [6]
The faces that surrounded Jim were thin with hunger, and the murder that had been committed by the chief had, as its origin, the foolish replies of the Hudson's Bay Company's man to their demand for supplies. [11]
Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions. [6]
Yet on that spot had also been erected the wooden platform from which Althea had showed him the transformation into the spider, and the recollection of the foolish error into which the Thracian had drawn him disagreeably clouded the pleasant thought of Daphne. [10]
It was in sooth a foolish thing to do; yet perhaps that was why she found it all the harder to give it up, and go she would not, but hid herself among the bushes. [10]
Unless there is some purpose behind the choice, which I do not for an instant believe, it was a foolish thing to do, and one very apt to lead to difficulties. [9]
It is not so: the foolish trivial end, The inconsequent paltry Nothing--gone--gone all; The genius of the ageless Something spend Itself within this little earthly wall: The commonplace conception, that we reap Reward of drudge and ploughman--idle sleep! [11]
Yes, Caracalla had sinned greatly, and his conviction that Alexander's soul lived in him and Roxana's in her was foolish enough; but the marvelous likeness to her of the portrait on the gem would astonish any one. [10]
He shrugged his shoulders at that, he insisted that his lawyer should not reply to the foolish and insulting suggestion. [11]
So that thee should have such sort of experience, though I was but a foolish choice of the experiment. [11]
The world was shocked and clamorous for a matter of nine days, and then it forgot this foolish and awkward circumstance; but Just Trafford never forgot it. [11]
Sometimes I think she may be capable of doing something foolish like--like Randolph. [9]
It was foolish, she knew, but their presence seemed--in the magnitude which trifles are wont to assume in the night-watches--of late to have poisoned her pleasure. [9]
In this way she had dealings with most of our noble families; and the young ones would call her not Hennelein, as her name was, but Henneleinlein, in jest at her foolish trick of repeating her last word. [10]
Why, even though she had been foolish in her request--why had he not done as she wished? [11]
No foolish passion shall prevent the convalescent youth from following his father upward along the pathway of fame. [10]
Her foolish little sentiments are all very well in their way; but business is business, and we can't stop for such trifles. [6]
His Catholic Majesty sent word from Spain to Mr. Jefferson that he was sorry his Intendant had been so foolish. [9]
But thou hast seen many worlds, and thou hast learned great things, and thou and I shall meet no more; for how shall the wise kneel at the feet of the foolish, as thou didst kneel once at thy father's feet? [11]
She fancied she saw Cambyses holding out his hand as if to ask forgiveness for his hastiness and foolish jealousy. [10]
But no, she sat and preened herself with the tissue-paper sort of pride of a vain milliner, or nervously shifted about, lifting up this and that, curiously supercilious, her tongue rattling on to her husband and to his mother in a shallow, foolish way. [11]
For your own sake--for the sake of us all--cease this foolish raving, and do not merely call yourself a skeptic--be one; control the passion that is rending you. [10]
Your wealth is said to be vast, though the foolish war which Antony, with your aid, so greatly prolonged, devoured vast sums. [10]
That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. [5]
She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket. [5]
Lounging half- breeds reviled him; the H. B. C. officials rebuked him; and travellers who were coming and going shared in the derision, as foolish people do where one is brow-beaten by many. [11]
You have unwittingly revealed--oh, for the twentieth time, though I could not believe it, would not believe it!--that it is not me you love, but that foolish sham my father's imitation earldom; and you have broken my heart! [5]
Nor could he resist the desire of contemplating the portrait bust, which--it was foolish to talk about ideals--was not Liberty, but Myrtle Hazard. [6]
He tried to remember whether he had not done anything else that was foolish. [2]
I did not relish this foolish bravado, and I forbade it; but presently I consented, on condition that he take me to General Wolfe's camp at Montmorenci first; for now I felt strong enough to be again on active service. [11]
I shall very readily agree with him that it would be foolish for us to insist upon having a cranberry law here in Illinois, where we have no cranberries, because they have a cranberry law in Indiana, where they have cranberries. [7]
A foolish story reached his ears that he was attempting to buy up stray copies for the sake of suppressing it. [6]
The rain was rattling against the windows and pouring down in torrents, and such was Mr Codlin's extreme amiability of mind, that he more than once expressed his earnest hope that they would not be so foolish as to get wet. [12]
Her face was radiant with happiness, and Mela was watching her with foolish, unselfish pleasure in her bliss. [8]
Neithotep, however, listened quietly, and when Nebenchari had finished, answered him thus: If thou, foolish son, hast betrayed thy country for the sake of thy burnt manuscripts, the deed has been neither just nor wise. [10]
He dreaded to push an explanation, and, foolish as lovers are, he was wise for once in trusting to time. [4]

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