The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which… — Mohsen Rezaee Copy Share Image
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image