Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe. [Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]” — Thomas Graham Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
