Sentence examples for would be as foolish from inspiring English sources

That would be as foolish as it would be tragic.

It would be as foolish to deny what our genes do as it would be to assert the sufficiency of our genes in making us who we are.

It would be as foolish to be discouraged about this as it would be to suppose that American power can change it quickly.

As we approach kick-off in another Africa Cup of Nations, all we can say for sure is that it would be as foolish to back against Didier Drogba & Co as it would be cavalier to count on them.

But dismissing these platforms as silly diversions would be as foolish as describing the telephone a hundred years ago as nothing more than an "electrical toy".

Grabbing a chunk of Poland would be as foolish as trying to annex Ukraine: Indeed, Joseph Stalin already moved both countries westward at the end of World War II to redraw boundary lines set by previous treaties and conflicts.

Surely the GOP would not be as foolish when it came time to debate health care.

It would, as you suggest, be foolish to abandon three years of hard work in theoretical physics, but you would be equally foolish to continue to limit yourself to that field.

"For Britain to retreat from the world would be as futile as it would be foolish," he said, adding that Ukip and some Conservative backbench MPs had "reverted into isolationism".

"Hoping that the DPRK would abandon its nuclear programs is as foolish an act as trying to wish seas to get dried up," it said, referring to itself by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. .

Foolish is as foolish does.