If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
