Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But… — Ward Moore Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Foolishness had never been an option in his life. He hadn’t acquired the knack for it. He should have known. Kisses, he’d… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
…" I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. — Proverbs 15:14 Copy Share Image
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at… — Jane Brereton 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
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
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