The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est… — Horace Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order:… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly” — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man… — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image