My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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