History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“...it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my… — James Otis Copy Share Image
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.” — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart — Don Williams Jr Copy Share Image
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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