Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart… — William Law Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move… To halt under fire is folly.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies,… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds.… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
![“I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.” quote by Keith Carradine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/keith-carradine-15039_comfort_i-mean-it-southern-comfort-is-basically_490409.jpg)
![“Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]” quote by Jean de La Fontaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/jean-de-la-fontaine-2320_alas_alas-we-see-that-the-small-have-always-s_1318260.jpg)
![“[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/885/charlie-munger-458_business_geico-got-to-thinking-that-because-they_3226286.jpg)
