Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Folly? O, it was indeed! But Folly is a prison where no charter of deliverence ever comes.” — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus… — Horace Copy Share Image
How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning.… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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