Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
