When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.” — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart… — William Law Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The cornerstone of America's defense is deterrence, ensuring that our adversaries understand the folly of outright conflict. — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
