All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“metrosexual for this folly? This was where he had died. I was reminded” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Any comfort you find in hating someone who speaks the truth is short-lived—and often replaced by regret.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo Copy Share Image
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract… — Thomas Keneally 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
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must… — Moses Mendelssohn 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
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
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image