Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies,… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James Copy Share Image
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
