Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and… — Brian Holguin Copy Share Image
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
“and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“...it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
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