The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it,… — RZA Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire 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
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
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne 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
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
“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
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
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism… — George Will Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does… — Newton Gatambia Copy Share Image
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In war as in life, it is often necessary whensome cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Was that what they called the natural lot of women? to suffer, perhaps to share the blame, but have no share in… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est… — Horace Copy Share Image
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
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