Sentence examples for of the foolish from inspiring English sources

However, no sooner had he established his rule than he swooped down and ate a number of the foolish birds, feathers and all.

Better to give! Give! Give! (then lay in wait for the debt to sear in the mind of the foolish receiver...).

Speaks of the foolish show and ceremony given arriving dependents; of the Americans inability and disinclination to understand and deal with the Germans - except in blackmarket transactions.

Don't be part of the foolish majority who fail to make time for Barbuda, the nation's second, and much smaller, inhabited island 48km to the north.

For no matter how hard he tried to wriggle out of the foolish commitment to private school, my mother wouldn't allow it.

Even if there are many stupid investors, went the theory, they would be driven out of the market by rational investors who could profit by trading against the investments of the foolish.

Thinks of all the foolish letters she has received before from men making foolish statements and giving her pet names they'd never call her to her face.

To many in the environmental movement, that report still stands as a beacon of sense in the foolish world of economics.

Tough guys may not dance, but real men have no fear of the exuberant, the foolish, or the loud sweater.

He then went into a discourse about Iran and sharply criticized the heads of government for even contemplating "the foolish idea" of attacking it.

As it turned out, the best of these foolish acts, and the best told, was the one recounted by the tall, large man.