Folly Quotes · Page 11

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

— Rudyard Kipling

“Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.”

— Edith Wharton

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

— Jacqueline Carey

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

— Samuel Johnson

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

— Richard Whately

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

— William Graham Sumner

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

— Isaac Watts

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their…

— Douglas Adams

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

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

— Pierre Charron

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

— Herman Melville

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

— Anonymous

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of…

— Samuel Johnson

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together…

— Susan Minot

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from…

— Bill Vaughan

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to…

— Charles Spurgeon

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or -…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is…

— Austin Farrer

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against…

— William Shakespeare

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of…

— Leo Rosten

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can…

— George Eliot

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…

— Adam Sedgwick

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .…

— Anonymous

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— George Orwell

When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

— Solomon

“Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!”

— Raheel Farooq

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.

— Michael R. Burch

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

— William Penn

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

— Joseph Addison

“He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd”

— Marthe Jocelyn

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly”

— benjamin franklin