536 examples of foolishnesses in sentences

What an idiot he'd been not to take the hot grog and the hot bath, and leave these people to fight their foolishness out among themselves!

The proof of foolishness is unrest and friction.

"What's the use of this foolishness, Johnnie?"

"Mr. Stoddard didn't call it foolishness when I named it to him.

Naow, ef I hear one word about this 'tarnal foolishness comin' to Angy's ears, or Brother Abe's, or Blossy's either, fer that matter, we'll all have to eat off'n oil-cloth Sundays, the same as weekdays, until I see a more Christian sperit in the house.

Martin laughed a little at his own foolishness in mistaking that common bird he was accustomed to see every day for a little old man.

She next bewitched the skunk with her foolishness.

"When she heard this she was very angry, for, with all her foolishness, she had only acted as she did because of her vanity and love of flattery.

"Firio and Jag Ear and Wrath of God and old P.D. herewe've sort of grown used to one another's foolishness.

The drama which in the hands of Ben Jonson had attacked folly and wickedness proper to no place or time, descended to the drawing-rooms of the day, and Congreve occupied himself with the portrayal of the social frauds and foolishnesses perpetrated by actual living men and women of fashion in contemporary London.

Money all blown in, overcoat up the spout, nothing ahead, and a whole year ofof damned foolishness behind.

For in spite of much surface foolishness that many might have read as weakness.

You were God's heirs all along, although you differed nothing from slaves; for as long as you were in your heathen ignorance and foolishness, God had to treat you as His slaves, not as His children; and so you were in bondage under the elements of the world, till the fulness of time was come.

When this proffer was likewise declined, he smiled in derision, telling me I was the son of foolishness, and that he foretold I should repent it.

" With the sweat pouring down his face, both hands now clasping the telephonehis right being completely numbedhe called upon the gods to witness the foolishness of mortals.

You laugh: but headstrong Love is blind no less Than Plutus: talking big is foolishness.

And, in their | foolishness, | passion, and | mulishness, Charge you with | churlishness, | spurning your pray'r.

I have no intention of freezing people, but they are hideously ill at ease with me, and say all kinds of foolishnesses from sheer nervousness.

But I guess mebbe I talk a lot of foolishness about Germany whipping everybody she fight with.

I have no patience with such foolishness.

In my misery without bounds, and in my equally great foolishness and degradation, I felt that from the time of Kromitzki's arrival I was beginning to despise Aniela.

"All this foolishness about open windows makes me tired.

I do not know what the quality is exactly, but I do know that he is without it; and in the dry light of Meyrick's mind, I forgive all muddled and irresolute people their sins and foolishnesses, their aggravating incompetence, their practical inefficacy; because I know that they have somehow in a clumsy way got hold of the two great principles that "The end is not yet," and "It doth not yet appear what we shall be."

I could record with no reluctant voice The woods of autumn, and their hazel bowers With milk-white clusters hung; the rod and line, 485 True symbol of hope's foolishness, whose strong And unreproved enchantment led us on By rocks and pools shut out from every star, All the green summer, to forlorn cascades Among the windings hid of mountain brooks.

But foolishness and madness in parade, Though most at home in this their dear domain, 595 Are scattered everywhere, no rarities, Even to the rudest novice of the Schools.

536 examples of  foolishnesses  in sentences