The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world. — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";… — John Balguy Copy Share Image
The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense.… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
