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
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
“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
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
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies. — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“ Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“4.10 ANGER Anger makes a dull man witty, But keeps him poor in eternity, A man shrinks when he is angry, And… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Foolishness had never been an option in his life. He hadn’t acquired the knack for it. He should have known. Kisses, he’d… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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