The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a… — Ellen G. White 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
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith 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
When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James Copy Share Image
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially… — John Stott Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies,… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move… To halt under fire is folly.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
“Lucy, why don’t you go to the folly and see if perhaps there is a rake we might use to retrieve the… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
![“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man…” quote by Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f06/malcolm-muggeridge-2370_beautiful_pascal-was-the-first-and-perhaps-is-stil_1911762.jpg)
![“Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]” quote by Jean de La Fontaine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/797/jean-de-la-fontaine-2320_alas_alas-we-see-that-the-small-have-always-s_1318260.jpg)
![“I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.” quote by Keith Carradine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ea0/keith-carradine-15039_comfort_i-mean-it-southern-comfort-is-basically_490409.jpg)
