Arthur Helps Quotes

We all do make foolish mistakes.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

Temptation is just that - she's the girl you claim you don't want, but in the moment, you have more drinks than you should in the club. One thing leads to another, and suddenly you've done something really stupid. You've jeopardized what could've potentially been a really great relationship, all due to temptation.

People make very many comments in life when they don't have the background or the knowledge.

Sometimes the only way to realize what a foolish purchase is is to make one.

Marrying early was a very big mistake. Everyone warned me but I felt I was in love and ignored their advice. I had to pay the price for my silly mistake when I had to compromise on my career.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

Who in their right mind goes into a fight they think they're going to lose?

Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our servicemen and servicewomen fighting terrorists who want to harm us.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

For me, the sign of a bad player is someone who makes the same mistake twice.

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.

Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.