Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but… — Sylvester Graham Copy Share Image
Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
![“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]” quote by Horace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e0/horace-172_folly_the-shame-of-fools-conceals-their-open-w_338776.jpg)
![“A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.” quote by T. R. Fehrenbach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a76/t-r-fehrenbach-17440_action_a-people-america-that-does-not-prepare-t_3150652.jpg)
