Sentence examples for said a foolish from inspiring English sources
Remember what Emerson said: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".
The epitaph was also seen as an opportunity for epigrammatic satire, as in the Earl of Rochester's lines on Charles II: "He never said a foolish thing / Nor ever did a wise one".
His loyalties were to the charming and improvident King, "who never said a foolish thing/ Nor ever did a wise one", and his own political interventions in the House of Lords were intermittent at best.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".
As Emerson said, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.'" To hear Henley and Gillll — tell it, it's the prospect of keeping Frey's songs alive that has motivated the decision to move forward.
Perhaps, as Emerson says, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines".
This may well be true, but as Anatole France observed, "If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing".
Republican lawmakers have said a lot of foolish things in the course of advancing their tax cut bills, but Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) set a new standard in silliness in his recent remarks about the repeal of the estate tax.
She has previously said only a "foolish politician" would do so.
What Emerson actually said was, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," adding that it was "adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines".
