[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

— Robert A. Heinlein

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

— Abraham Lincoln

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”

— Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the…

— Marguerite Duras

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

— Rumi

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

— George Bernard Shaw

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

— Marie of Romania

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

— William Feather

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

— Ambrose Bierce

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and…

— Robert Briffault

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— Arundhati Roy

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the…

— Rohinton Mistry

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin