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
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
“War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..” — Georgina Grey Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
