War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. — James Madison Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates Copy Share Image
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
