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
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
“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
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
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
“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
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you… — 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
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner 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
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
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
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
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
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds.… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks… — Homer Copy Share Image
Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time… — Bernard Darwin Copy Share Image
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 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)
![“[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/885/charlie-munger-458_business_geico-got-to-thinking-that-because-they_3226286.jpg)
