Quotes about Folly

One man's folly is another man's wife. Votes: 4

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. Votes: 4

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Votes: 4

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Votes: 4

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Votes: 4

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. Votes: 4

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Votes: 4

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. Votes: 4

Folly growes without watering. Votes: 3

Folly always knows the answer. Votes: 3

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Votes: 3

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. Votes: 3

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly. Votes: 3

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Votes: 3

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. Votes: 3

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. Votes: 3

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. Votes: 3

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything. Votes: 3

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. Votes: 3

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Votes: 3

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. Votes: 3

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. Votes: 3

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly Votes: 3

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules. Votes: 3

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. Votes: 3

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. Votes: 3

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. Votes: 3

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length. Votes: 3

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. Votes: 3

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. Votes: 3

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. Votes: 3

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. Votes: 3

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly. Votes: 3

Beauty and folly are old companions. Votes: 2

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Votes: 2

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Votes: 2

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. Votes: 2

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. Votes: 2

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Votes: 2

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. Votes: 2

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. Votes: 2

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Votes: 2

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. Votes: 2

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. Votes: 2

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. Votes: 2

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Votes: 2

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. Votes: 2

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. Votes: 2

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. Votes: 2

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Votes: 2

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. Votes: 2

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Votes: 2

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. Votes: 2

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. Votes: 2

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Votes: 2

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Votes: 2

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. Votes: 2

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Votes: 2

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? Votes: 2

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Votes: 2

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Votes: 2

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Votes: 2

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Votes: 2

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. Votes: 2

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Votes: 2

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. Votes: 2

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Votes: 2

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Votes: 2

Apathy borders upon folly. Votes: 0

Tis folly to be wise. Votes: 0

Anger without power is folly. Votes: 0

Beauty and folly are generally companions. Votes: 0

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly. Votes: 0

If folly disappeared, wit would starve. Votes: 0

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. Votes: 0

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. Votes: 0

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly ... Votes: 0

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. Votes: 0

Covering discretion with a coat of folly. Votes: 0

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 0

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole. Votes: 0

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom Votes: 0

Wisdom at times is found in folly. Votes: 0

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. Votes: 0

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Votes: 0

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom. Votes: 0

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not. Votes: 0

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity. Votes: 0

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance." Votes: 0

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. Votes: 0

[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. Votes: 0

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way. Votes: 0

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. Votes: 0

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom. Votes: 0

It is folly to waste labour about trifles. Votes: 0

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly. Votes: 0

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance." Votes: 0

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. Votes: 0

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. Votes: 0

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity. Votes: 0

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. Votes: 0

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly. Votes: 0

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. Votes: 0

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. Votes: 0

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear. Votes: 0

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. Votes: 0

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly. Votes: 0

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly. Votes: 0

Those who realise their folly are not true fools. Votes: 0

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. Votes: 0

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided. Votes: 0

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard. Votes: 0

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow. Votes: 0

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich. Votes: 0

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Votes: 0

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. Votes: 0

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime Votes: 0

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. Votes: 0

There is no folly like the folly of the wise. Votes: 0

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Votes: 0

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. Votes: 0

The folly of one man is the fortune of another. Votes: 0

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. Votes: 0

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. Votes: 0

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. Votes: 0

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. Votes: 0

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. Votes: 0

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly. Votes: 0

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. Votes: 0

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace. Votes: 0

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. Votes: 0

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly. Votes: 0

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. Votes: 0

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. Votes: 0

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Votes: 0

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly. Votes: 0

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly. Votes: 0

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. Votes: 0

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. Votes: 0

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes. Votes: 0

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. Votes: 0

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. Votes: 0

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. Votes: 0

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly. Votes: 0

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. Votes: 0

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. Votes: 0

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. Votes: 0

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next. Votes: 0

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. Votes: 0

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. Votes: 0

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly. Votes: 0

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. Votes: 0

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! Votes: 0

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. Votes: 0

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. Votes: 0

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. Votes: 0

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. Votes: 0

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? Votes: 0

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate. Votes: 0

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. Votes: 0

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. Votes: 0

It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job. Votes: 0

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly. Votes: 0

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden. Votes: 0

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. Votes: 0

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise Votes: 0

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity. Votes: 0

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly. Votes: 0

A man,s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy Votes: 0

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly Votes: 0

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse. Votes: 0

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. Votes: 0

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality. Votes: 0

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Votes: 0

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Votes: 0

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom. Votes: 0

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! Votes: 0

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. Votes: 0

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. Votes: 0

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. Votes: 0

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think. Votes: 0

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme. Votes: 0

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious. Votes: 0

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly. Votes: 0

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world. Votes: 0

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. Votes: 0

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. Votes: 0

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Votes: 0

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Votes: 0

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Votes: 0

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Votes: 0

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. Votes: 0

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. Votes: 0

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. Votes: 0

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. Votes: 0

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Votes: 0

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. Votes: 0

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. Votes: 0

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] Votes: 0

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. Votes: 0

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. Votes: 0

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. Votes: 0

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. Votes: 0

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. Votes: 0

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. Votes: 0

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. Votes: 0

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. Votes: 0

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly. Votes: 0

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. Votes: 0

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. Votes: 0

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. Votes: 0

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. Votes: 0

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. Votes: 0

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Votes: 0

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. Votes: 0

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not. Votes: 0

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. Votes: 0

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. Votes: 0

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Votes: 0

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. Votes: 0

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Votes: 0

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors." Votes: 0

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. Votes: 0

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him. Votes: 0

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. Votes: 0

One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly. Votes: 0

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Votes: 0

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. Votes: 0

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. Votes: 0

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. Votes: 0

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. Votes: 0

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Votes: 0

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. Votes: 0

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools. Votes: 0

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! Votes: 0

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom. Votes: 0

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. Votes: 0

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me. Votes: 0

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly. Votes: 0

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.] Votes: 0

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. Votes: 0

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. Votes: 0

To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly. Votes: 0

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. Votes: 0

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Votes: 0

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. Votes: 0

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. Votes: 0

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Votes: 0

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. Votes: 0

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. Votes: 0

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. Votes: 0

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. Votes: 0

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Votes: 0

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. Votes: 0

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. Votes: 0

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. Votes: 0

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. Votes: 0

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly. Votes: 0

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. Votes: 0

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. Votes: 0

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. Votes: 0

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. Votes: 0

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel. Votes: 0

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. Votes: 0

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! Votes: 0

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Votes: 0

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. Votes: 0

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. Votes: 0

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. Votes: 0

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly. Votes: 0

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! Votes: 0

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. Votes: 0

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. Votes: 0

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. Votes: 0

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. Votes: 0

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all "¦ is not to have one. Votes: 0

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. Votes: 0

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. Votes: 0

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. Votes: 0

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? Votes: 0

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. Votes: 0

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. Votes: 0

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. Votes: 0

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. Votes: 0

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. Votes: 0

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. Votes: 0

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. Votes: 0

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! Votes: 0

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. Votes: 0

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. Votes: 0

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. Votes: 0

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise. Votes: 0

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. Votes: 0

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. Votes: 0

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. Votes: 0

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. Votes: 0

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler Votes: 0

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Votes: 0

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion. Votes: 0

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us. Votes: 0

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. Votes: 0

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. Votes: 0

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly Votes: 0

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. Votes: 0

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. Votes: 0

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd Votes: 0

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. Votes: 0

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. Votes: 0

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. Votes: 0

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . Votes: 0

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. Votes: 0

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Votes: 0

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. Votes: 0

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. Votes: 0

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. Votes: 0

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. Votes: 0

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Votes: 0

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. Votes: 0

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. Votes: 0

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Votes: 0

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. Votes: 0

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. Votes: 0

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted. Votes: 0

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. Votes: 0

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. Votes: 0

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] Votes: 0

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Votes: 0

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. Votes: 0

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. Votes: 0

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. Votes: 0

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. Votes: 0

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. Votes: 0

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. Votes: 0

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly. Votes: 0

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. Votes: 0

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. Votes: 0

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. Votes: 0

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. Votes: 0

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. Votes: 0

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 0

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. Votes: 0

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men Votes: 0

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. Votes: 0

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. Votes: 0

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. Votes: 0

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. Votes: 0

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Votes: 0

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. Votes: 0

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Votes: 0

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. Votes: 0

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. Votes: 0

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. Votes: 0

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils Votes: 0

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. Votes: 0

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly -- I know not which is the greater ... Votes: 0

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. Votes: 0

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. Votes: 0

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Votes: 0

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Votes: 0

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. Votes: 0

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] Votes: 0

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel. Votes: 0

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. Votes: 0

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not. Votes: 0

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. Votes: 0

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause. Votes: 0

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. Votes: 0

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. Votes: 0

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? Votes: 0

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. Votes: 0

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure. Votes: 0

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home. Votes: 0

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. Votes: 0

You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence. Votes: 0

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. Votes: 0

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. Votes: 0

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. Votes: 0

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Votes: 0

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. Votes: 0

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it. Votes: 0

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed! Votes: 0

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what? Votes: 0

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. Votes: 0

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. Votes: 0

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin. Votes: 0

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Votes: 0

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Votes: 0

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly? Votes: 0

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none Votes: 0

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco. Votes: 0

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. Votes: 0

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Votes: 0

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. Votes: 0

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. Votes: 0

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly. Votes: 0

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others. Votes: 0

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly. Votes: 0

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Votes: 0

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. Votes: 0

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] Votes: 0

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Votes: 0

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. Votes: 0

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. Votes: 0

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared. Votes: 0

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. Votes: 0

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. Votes: 0

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools. Votes: 0

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Votes: 0

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. Votes: 0

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil! Votes: 0

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery Votes: 0

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly. Votes: 0

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Votes: 0

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. Votes: 0

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there? Votes: 0

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Votes: 0

It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, everyone else will know. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Votes: 0

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive. Votes: 0

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves. Votes: 0

If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation. Votes: 0

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. Votes: 0

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Votes: 0

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame. Votes: 0

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt. Votes: 0

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides. Votes: 0

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking. Votes: 0

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. Votes: 0

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. Votes: 0

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically. Votes: 0

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. Votes: 0

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world. Votes: 0

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly Votes: 0

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting. Votes: 0

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man. Votes: 0

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks. Votes: 0

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven. Votes: 0

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them. Votes: 0

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure. Votes: 0

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! Votes: 0

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work Votes: 0

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited. Votes: 0

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. Votes: 0

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. Votes: 0

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry. Votes: 0

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. Votes: 0

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. Votes: 0

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. Votes: 0

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's. Votes: 0

There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. Votes: 0

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same. Votes: 0

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. Votes: 0

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Votes: 0

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. Votes: 0

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly. Votes: 0

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. Votes: 0

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary. Votes: 0

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Votes: 0

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. Votes: 0

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. Votes: 0

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. Votes: 0

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. Votes: 0

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage. Votes: 0

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is. Votes: 0

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. Votes: 0

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. Votes: 0

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. Votes: 0

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. Votes: 0

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away. Votes: 0

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly. Votes: 0

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day Votes: 0

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto. Votes: 0

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears. Votes: 0

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. Votes: 0

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. Votes: 0

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. Votes: 0

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. Votes: 0

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice. Votes: 0

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure. Votes: 0

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent. Votes: 0

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman! Votes: 0

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. Votes: 0

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. Votes: 0

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do? Votes: 0

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. Votes: 0

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all. Votes: 0

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all. Votes: 0

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling. Votes: 0

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Votes: 0

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action? Votes: 0

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly. Votes: 0

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. Votes: 0

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. Votes: 0

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly Votes: 0

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly Votes: 0