There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing… — Nikolai Gogol 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
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and… — Desiderius Erasmus 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
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These,… — Democritus Copy Share Image
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks… — Homer Copy Share Image
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time… — Bernard Darwin Copy Share Image
Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and… — William James 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 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)
