Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly. — William Penn
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a… — William Hazlitt
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the… — Edmund Spenser
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the… — Samuel Johnson
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,… — Samuel Johnson
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. — Homer
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. — Charles Churchill
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. — Charles Churchill
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly… — Otto von Bismarck
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. — Philip Massinger
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the… — Lord David Cecil
The shortest follies are the best. — Pierre Charron
Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home. — Stephen Harper
It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job. — Stuart Pearce
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination,… — John Henninger Reagan
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used… — Will Rogers
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. — Desiderius Erasmus

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