The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce… — George Croly Copy Share Image
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America. — Brian Kilmeade Copy Share Image
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
