Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
“For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.” — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart — Don Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer Copy Share Image
Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
![“A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.” quote by T. R. Fehrenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/t-r-fehrenbach-17440_action_a-people-america-that-does-not-prepare-t_3150652.jpg)
![“He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]” quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/549/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_folly_he-who-lives-without-committing-any-foll_1308958.png)
![“If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]” quote by George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/george-herbert-107_folly_if-folly-were-griefe-every-house-would-w_1291592.jpg)
![“A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_be-a-man_a-fool-is-one-whom-simpletons-believe-to_2018317.png)
