Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. — Proverbs 15:14 Copy Share Image
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy… — John Brough Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
![“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to…” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/76d/adam-sedgwick-38188_breeding_vestiges-begins-from-principles-which-ar_743932.png)
