My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
