How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the… — Narayanananda Swami Copy Share Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that… — Kevin Rahm 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
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia 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
. . . 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
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
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
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but… — George Henry Boker Copy Share Image
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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