Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training,… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted. — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image