The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates Copy Share Image
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. — James Madison Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
