I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler — Wilhelm Canaris Copy Share Image
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should… — John Bright Copy Share Image
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry — Edward Young Copy Share Image
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
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