How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.

We may say that his attitude was foolish, since he may have been a success had he learned some human relations skills ; ;

It came to him as he wept there aboard the Somers that it was as foolish to strive for greatness as to seek to storm the gates of heaven.

It was foolish and snobbish to wear clothing when none of these nice people did.

He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".

This version says Babieca was raised in the royal stables of Seville and was a highly trained and loyal war horse, not a foolish stallion.

She believed that it was this inferior education that turned them into foolish people, but women " could easily be concentrated and solidified upon objects of great significance " if given the chance.

Japanese Prince Kinashi no Karu had sexual relationships with his full sister Princess Karu no Ōiratsume, although the action was regarded as foolish.

Related to this was the observation that it was foolish to deny to God the same honor that was freely given to the human emperor.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

The moral of this story was that foolish people are seduced by false doctrines.

In a famous letter to Leopold von Gerlach, Bismarck wrote that it was foolish to play chess having first put 16 of the 64 squares out of bounds.

In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".

The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said, " More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler.

In 1960, Leigh recalled her ambivalence towards her first experience of critical acclaim and sudden fame, commenting, " some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress.

And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

But our thoughts can contain only one idea at a time, so if the plot is " hero runs after murderer " and our reflection is " he was foolish to trust the villain ", our thought is something like " hero foolish trust run after murderer villain ".

Her downfall was due to having so few like-minded people on European integration amongst her colleagues and that as she had adopted a line that would improve her party's popularity, it was foolish of them to force her out.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

There was more to this than Jones had told him.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

The stockade was brilliantly lighted and the guerrillas sighted him.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

I was careful to keep my feet, the seat of the least worthy spirits, from pointing at anyone's head, where the worthiest spirits reside.

to keep them out of homes, even in the 1900's, was a chore.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

To keep 'em scattered somewhat and yet herd 'em was called `` loose herdin' ''.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

This was going to be it now, any second, and what he had to remember was to keep his eye on the razor, no matter what, even if Roberts should feint with a kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive concern.