Folly Quotes · Page 24

Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is…

— Fanny Burney

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

— David Hume

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

— Marcel Proust

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Folly is the stupidity of heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like…

— Andrew Dickson White

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

— George Eliot

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the…

— Hilary of Poitiers

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

— Norm MacDonald

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

— Richard Whately

“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade…

— Thomas More

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill…

— Jonathan Swift

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

— Anonymous

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once…

— Marquis de Sade

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.…

— Mark Twain

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a…

— John Dryden

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux