Folly Quotes · Page 3

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

— Jeremiah

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

— Edgar Pangborn

“Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom.”

— Horace

To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

— Mason Cooley

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

— Rudyard Kipling

“It is acceptable to feel fear, it is folly to hold on to it.”

— Kelly McCullough

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

— George Eliot

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus…

— Horace

“Folly? O, it was indeed! But Folly is a prison where no charter of deliverence ever comes.”

— A.E. Coppard

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

— George Pope Morris

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

— Epicurus

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

— Walter Scott

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom…

— Charles Spurgeon

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if…

— Walter Savage Landor

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of…

— Charlie Munger

Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate…

— Karl Donitz

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

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

As long as there will be homophobic, racist or simply bigoted parents, educators and writers, there will be discrimination, prejudice and other…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise…

— John Charles Polanyi

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man…

— Henry Drummond

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said,…

— Will Rogers

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the…

— Jessica Mitford

No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the…

— Charles Henry Mackintosh

What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but…

— Sylvester Graham

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."…

— Barbara Tuchman

Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run…

— William Shakespeare

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…

— Karl Marx

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may…

— Horace Mann

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

— Richard Adams

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

— Anonymous

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

— William Shakespeare

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

— Deborah Needleman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

— Derek Jarman