Folly Quotes · Page 8

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

— Samuel Johnson

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

— William Shakespeare

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

— Anonymous

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

— Richard Adams

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

— George Eliot

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

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may…

— Dan Simmons

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ”

— Thomas Gray

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

— George Bernard Shaw

...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

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,…

— Blaise Pascal

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting…

— Anne Bronte

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She…

— Georgette Heyer

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the…

— Edward Gibbon

“For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own…

— William Penn

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…

— Tobias Wolff

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach…

— Khalil Gibran

If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase…

— Jonathan Edwards

“People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid…

— Théun Mares

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards…

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place,…

— James Branch Cabell

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in…

— Edmund Burke

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using…

— Charlie Munger

“Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition…

— Lew Wallace

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

— Rudyard Kipling

“It is acceptable to feel fear, it is folly to hold on to it.”

— Kelly McCullough

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

— George Bernard Shaw

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

— Anonymous

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

— Mason Cooley

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

— Benjamin Franklin

To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero