Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“… where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise wrote the poet Thomas Gray.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning.… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
“For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order:… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.” — Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV Copy Share Image
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe. [Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]” — Thomas Graham Copy Share Image
“Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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