The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but… — George Henry Boker Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly” — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
