Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time… — Bernard Darwin Copy Share Image
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
