A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.] — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not. — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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