All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy… — John Brough Copy Share Image
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. — Edgar Pangborn Copy Share Image
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo Copy Share Image
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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