Folly Quotes

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually… — Joel Sartore
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that… — D. H. Lawrence
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not… — Charles Spurgeon
If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd — William Shakespeare
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom… — Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson
If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave… — John Bartholomew Gough
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!… — Frederic Farrar
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved… — Edwin Percy Whipple
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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