To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ” — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It would be an act of wisdom to depart immediately… but wisdom is itself the product of knowledge; and knowledge, unfortunately, is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.… — James M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. — Edgar Pangborn Copy Share Image
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay” — Tony DiTerlizzi Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
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