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Given Glasenberg's reputation and large personal stake in Glencore, the company is unlikely to offer meaningfully over what the market believes, rightly or wrongly, Rio is worth, but I think it is foolish to underestimate Glencore, given the success of the company to date. – Ric Ronge	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself. – Boston Mayor Marty Walsh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm asking people to stop the nonsense right now - these are adults jumping out windows. It's a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself. – Boston Mayor Marty Walsh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s foolish to think that older people don’t enjoy sex. It’s a big myth, there is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex...you learn to do things with more experience, intelligence and the ability to choose more wisely. – Florence Henderson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
[Afghanistan] is not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again, i'm certain that at the White House ... his advisers all cringed because it's a very foolish thing to say. – Steve Hayes	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I apologize to the people of this country as chairman of Korean Air and as a father for the trouble caused by my daughter's foolish conduct. – Heather Cho	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I apologise to the people of this country as chairman of Korean Air and as a father for the trouble caused by my daughter's foolish conduct. – Heather Cho	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It's not as foolish an idea as one might think, if The Molinaris play The Molinaris cards right The Molinaris could win this( bidding contest). – Franco Chimenti	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. – James Russell Lowell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. – Elizabeth Gaskell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. – Nicolas Chamfort	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. – Jean de La Fontaine	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. – Josiah Gilbert Holland	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Humans are so foolish--we measure ourselves by our residue. – Leslie Miklosy	added by scrutinizer00 12 years ago

Given Glasenberg's reputation and large personal stake in Glencore, the company is unlikely to offer meaningfully over what the market believes, rightly or wrongly, Rio is worth, but I think it is foolish to underestimate Glencore, given the success of the company to date.

– Ric Ronge

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself.

– Boston Mayor Marty Walsh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm asking people to stop the nonsense right now - these are adults jumping out windows. It's a foolish thing to do and you could kill yourself.

– Boston Mayor Marty Walsh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s foolish to think that older people don’t enjoy sex. It’s a big myth, there is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex...you learn to do things with more experience, intelligence and the ability to choose more wisely.

– Florence Henderson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

[Afghanistan] is not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again, i'm certain that at the White House ... his advisers all cringed because it's a very foolish thing to say.

– Steve Hayes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I apologize to the people of this country as chairman of Korean Air and as a father for the trouble caused by my daughter's foolish conduct.

– Heather Cho

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

I apologise to the people of this country as chairman of Korean Air and as a father for the trouble caused by my daughter's foolish conduct.

– Heather Cho

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

It's not as foolish an idea as one might think, if The Molinaris play The Molinaris cards right The Molinaris could win this( bidding contest).

– Franco Chimenti

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

– Thomas Fuller