Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
