It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Any comfort you find in hating someone who speaks the truth is short-lived—and often replaced by regret.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
