Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
