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After some time his brother Vibhavasu told Supritika, 'It is from great foolishness that persons blinded by love of wealth always desire to make a partition of their patrimony. After effecting a partition they fight with each other, deluded by wealth.
Nor does Alviry Boggs, though she's got to talking a dreadful lot lately about wanting to ride around in an automobile. At her age, too!" "You should own a car, Uncle Jabez," urged Ruth. "Now, stop that! Stop that, Niece Ruth! I won't hear to no such foolishness.
"Before he was ten years old he'd read the Cottage Encyclopedy and the Imitation and the Bible from back to back!" "Well, I'm glad to hear you're of a studious mind," said the colonel. As often as Joe had heard his mother boast of his achievements with those three notable books, he had not yet grown hardened to it. It always gave him a feeling of foolishness, and drowned him in blushes.
The commands of the Lord are infinite principles, and in their natural and simple deductions cover all the acts of Life having any moral bearing, from the greatest to the least; and it is not the wisdom, but, the foolishness, of man, not his depth, but his shallowness, that endeavors to limit their significance and their application.
Joe gazed enviously at the row of down-turned faces. They were all going to their homes, while he he was going he knew not whither, at the will of French Pete. He was half tempted to cry out for help; but the foolishness of such an act struck him, and he held his tongue.
My thoughts were ever running away to Yorkshire, and on the pleasant time I hoped to spend. Between the lines on my paper I was ever seeing the old baronial hall that was Tom Temple's home, and the people who had been invited to spend the festive season there. Presently I began to chide myself for my foolishness.
"Because that's foolishness," said the Sperbers' nephew. "Foolish?" said the much-courted one, laughing. "Are we then from White of Egg?" "But, my dear Mamsell," said Herr von Mengersen, "these are things ..." "And he said more ... other kinds of things," said the maid, laughing. "Be quiet!" commanded the courtier. "No, no," said the girl, "I wasn't going to say anything. That was just for us."
"Of a certainty," retorted the Colonel, "Margaret and one of your pipers would be enough if we only had the townspeople to consider. There's no game much easier than walking into a lion's den when the lion isn't there, but it's pure foolishness to play the game till you're sure he's not at home." "Lion! What's to do here wi' lions?" asked Maclachlan.
And what did I think now about the foolishness of that theory the theory that Bedr was a spy, and had led his employers to believe that "Mrs. Jones" was travelling with her stepdaughter concealed under an impeccably important nom de guerre?
And to him I told something of my story and my thoughts and my memories, and of that awakening; and thus up to this present happening, and he hearkened with sympathy and a troubled and wondering heart; for in that age a man might talk sanely upon that which, in this age of ours would be accounted foolishness and maybe the breathings of insanity; for there, by the refinement of arts of mentality and the results of strange experiments and the accomplishment of learning, men were abled to conceive of matters now closed to our conceptions, even as we of this day may haply give a calm ear to talk, that in the days of our fathers would have been surely set to the count of lunacy.
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