foolishness

See Also: ABSURDITY, FUTILITY, STUPIDITY

1. A blockhead is as ridiculous when he talks as is a goose when it flies —Lord Halifax

   The words ‘talks’ and ‘flies’ have been modernized from the old English ‘talketh’ and ‘flieth.’

2. Comparing them [American and Oriental women] is like comparing oven broilers and banties —Bobbie Ann Mason
3. Felt foolishness drag like excess flesh on his face —Sharon Sheehe Stark
4. Foolish as to cut off the head to preserve the hair —Anon

   An alternative to the cliche, “As foolish as to cut off your nose to spite your face.”

5. Foolish as to judge a horse by its harness —Anon
6. A fool is like other men as long as he is silent —Jacob Cats
7. A fool … says little, but that little said owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead —William Cowper
8. Gullible as geese —Anon
9. How foolish one would be to climb into the ring with love and try to trade blows with him, like a boxer —Sophocles
10. If all fools wore white caps, we should look like a flock of geese —Proverb
11. I’ll not be a fool like the nightingale who is up till midnight without any ale —Dylan Thomas
12. Life’s little suckers chirp like crickets while spending all on losing tickets —Ogden Nash
13. Lightheaded as a thistle —Mary Lavin

    See Also: LIGHTNESS

14. A man who commits suicide is like a man who longs for a gate to be opened and who cuts his throat before he reaches the gate —Dylan Thomas
15. Senseless … it’s like wearing a bulletproof vest with a hole over the heart —Senator John Heinz, December, 1985 news item
16. Unrealistic … like someone who eats like a linebacker but yearns for the shape of a fashion model —Anon