Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could,… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Knew all about the folly of moving on a target folly of be found inWhat he’d dreamed of for years—ce, and an… — Coreene Callahan Copy Share Image
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order:… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“You wish to believe foolishly that no matter what comes, you can simply overcome through some sense of unlimited potential or magical… — Robert J. Crane Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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