He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“metrosexual for this folly? This was where he had died. I was reminded” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But… — Ward Moore Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image