True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a… — Ellen G. White 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
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick 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
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
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
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lucy, why don’t you go to the folly and see if perhaps there is a rake we might use to retrieve the… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope 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
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
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
“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
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
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
It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce… — George Croly Copy Share Image
“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of heredetary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
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![“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)
