Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the…

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

— Lucy Larcom

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and…

— Jerry Bridges

Imagination governs the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is thought which governs the world, and all the states in it, and produces whatever is great and glorious in them. Stirring and…

— Marc A Hight

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

— Bill Vaughan

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and…

— Thomas More

“The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the…

— Jacques Lacan

“High Lord of Prythian indeed. High Lord of Foolery was more like it.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds…

— Hermann Hesse

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

— William Shakespeare

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

— Anonymous

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

— John Steinbeck