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
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum… — RICHARD HOWARD Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous 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
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding 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
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
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
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
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