Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in this world; the clueless and the repentant, those who are open to looking at their… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I… — Ron Galella Copy Share Image
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
