I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In war as in life, it is often necessary whensome cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est… — Horace Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see,… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
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If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which… — Mohsen Rezaee Copy Share Image
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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