There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde 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
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it,… — RZA Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism… — George Will Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does… — Newton Gatambia Copy Share Image
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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