it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
