Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or -… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.… — James M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“What could be more absurd? Yet it is nature's folly, not ours. When she set about her chief masterpiece, the making of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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