In class, if he thought that a fellow student had said something foolish, he showed no forensic bloodlust".
He said that Ms Kyenge had accepted his apology, that he would send her a bouquet of flowers, and added: "I said something foolish and I recognise that".
At the end of the day, though — a day, say, on which a President says something foolish, or a Supreme Court nominee has to step aside, or a White House aide is indicted — the voice you'll most want to hear is still Jon Stewart's.
Daredevil sky-diver Felix Baumgartner was the talk of the web but not because a video captured him falling over or saying something foolish.
Instead of 'Maine women,' I said 'white women.'" He also took a swipe at the reporters who showed up: "I probably couldn't get so many of you here without saying something foolish".
When I spoke to him, he would look at me as if to ask how anyone could say something so foolish.
If you say something silly, you will look foolish in front of everyone.
The idea is to reprint the words of a public figure when he or she says something singularly foolish about economics.
If I say something ignorant or crazy he'll start thinking, Old men can be foolish.
How many of you were told by God to do something, say something, building something, and as you were doing it and maybe even after you were done, you looked "foolish" to people?
