Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to… — Jacques Barzun
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.… — Queen Noor of Jordan
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. — George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce
Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly. — G. Edward Griffin
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have… — Jimmy Reid
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be… — Calvin Coolidge
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to… — Benjamin Franklin
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do… — Barbara Tuchman
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has… — John Wyndham
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer.… — Jack Parsons
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. — Jude Morgan
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all… — John George Nicolay
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders… — Og Mandino
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay… — Calvin Coolidge
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly — Desiderius Erasmus
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue… — Philip K. Jason
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. — Steven Pinker
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly — Claude C. Hopkins
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. — Alexander Hamilton

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