A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man… — Augustine of Hippo 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
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is… — Philip James Bailey 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
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
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many… — Steve Martin 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
When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
