Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. — Jonathan Swift 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
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom.… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
