It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly,… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies. — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“ Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace Copy Share Image
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age. — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
“There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image