“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom.… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence… — John Ray Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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