We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him." ( Proverbs 26:4 )” — Holy Bible Copy Share Image
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“ Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace Copy Share Image
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept… — Homer Copy Share Image
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image