Folly Quotes · Page 19

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

— Leonid Andreyev

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is…

— Plautus

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

— Sophocles

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

— R.L. LaFevers

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

— Charles Busch

Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

— Brian Kilmeade

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

— Andre Norton

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her…

— Leonardo da Vinci

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with…

— Euripides

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering…

— H. L. Mencken

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.…

— William E. Gladstone

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way…

— Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence…

— George Washington

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness…

— George MacDonald

Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and…

— Zicheng Hong

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing…

— Nikolai Gogol

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet…

— Thomas Gray

[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been…

— Dorothy Dunnett

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another…

— John Amos Comenius

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution…

— Ba Jin

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And…

— Jonathan Swift

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

— Teresa of Avila

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we…

— Mary Astell

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

— Carl Sandburg

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

— G. Edward Griffin

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill…

— Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

— Jonathan Swift

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

— John Lancaster Spalding

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

— Jude Morgan

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.

— William Shakespeare

“In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“he showed consummate folly in allowing the Duke to fight on ground of his own choosing.”

— Frank McLynn

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from…

— C. S. Lewis