Sentence examples for what foolish from inspiring English sources

What foolish capitalists we've been.

Somewhere or other Keynes wrote that "it is astonishing what foolish things a man thinking alone can come temporarily to believe".

Both presidents know what foolish economic policies achieve and what it's like to go days without eating because of them.

What was foolish then is foolish now.

'What a foolish eeky sound,' they are all thinking.

What a foolish waste of money, particularly in a time of economic stress for everyone.

Or maybe, just maybe, more colleges will recognize what a foolish exercise this whole thing has become.

Still, if you're going to write a whole article about what those foolish liberal economists haven't considered, maybe, maybe, you should check to see what they've actually written.

When the fifties Oliver taunts the closeted Philip — "You'll die... not knowing who you are.... What a foolish, sad way to live" — Philip clouts him, then collapses in his arms.

After the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, he wrote, "I want to say, as we lay there and the shells were flying over us, my thoughts went back to my home, and I thought what a foolish boy I was to run away and get into such a mess as I was in.

What was foolish in the human condition never failed to amuse Mr. Galbraith, and tends to echo today, for example when he pokes at the financial experts and Fed bankers whose soft purrings about the "fundamental soundness" of the economy encouraged Americans toward the 1929 precipice: "In the autumn of 1929, the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.