Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. — Robert Gordis
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and… — Anna Julia Cooper
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly… — Heinrich Hertz
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! — Walter Scott
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. — Hayao Miyazaki
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,… — Thomas Jefferson
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. — Paul Valery
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper;… — Thomas Berry
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco. — Horace
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. — Francois Rabelais
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. — Aldous Huxley
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. — Miguel de Cervantes
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst… — Isaac D'Israeli
A fool's bolt is soon shot. — William Shakespeare
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare

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