There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.… — James M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer Copy Share Image
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I too once thought of producing a musical play on Tyagaraja. People fell at my feet, saying please don't commit such a… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
