As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
“For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.” — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton Copy Share Image
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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