Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense.… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";… — John Balguy Copy Share Image
