You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
“Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.” — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay” — Tony DiTerlizzi Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
