Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t… — Robert A. Heinlein
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was… — Philip Pullman
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.… — Emile M. Cioran
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the… — William Shakespeare
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love… — William Shakespeare
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly. — Isaac Newton
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. — William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although… — William Shakespeare
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a… — Carl Jung
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. — Warren Buffett
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth… — James Lee Burke
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. — William Butler Yeats
Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back… — Stephen Sondheim
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. — A. E. Housman
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright
Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,… — Samuel Johnson

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