Folly Quotes · Page 23

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

— Aldous Huxley

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

— Charles Spurgeon

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

— Marcel Proust

It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly,…

— Catherine Fisher

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

— Steven Erikson

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“There are two kinds of people in this world; the clueless and the repentant, those who are open to looking at their…

— John Eldredge

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…

— James Wolcott

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of…

— William Hazlitt

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so…

— Charlotte Bronte

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are…

— Dean Koontz

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,…

— Thomas Paine

Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by…

— Christopher Columbus

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming…

— James Branch Cabell

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I…

— Mark Twain

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion…

— Oscar Wilde

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of…

— Corra May Harris

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,…

— Samuel Johnson

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

— Bryant H. McGill

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

— Francis Quarles

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

— Horace

“There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.”

— Jim Butcher

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

— Robert Gordis

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production…

— Charles Busch

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

— Benjamin Franklin

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

— Joseph Addison

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

— Pearl S. Buck

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

— William Butler Yeats

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

— Carl Jung

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

— Charles Churchill

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

— Leon Kass

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

— George Crabbe