The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training,… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.” — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept… — Homer Copy Share Image
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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