Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.] — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..” — Georgina Grey Copy Share Image
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies,… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
I too once thought of producing a musical play on Tyagaraja. People fell at my feet, saying please don't commit such a… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler — Wilhelm Canaris Copy Share Image
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
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