Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the… — Baruch Spinoza
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not… — Alan Watts
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know… — George R. R. Martin
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious… — E. M. Forster
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us,"… — Lloyd Alexander
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just… — Dalai Lama
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. — Pythagoras
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that… — Booker T. Washington
... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted. — R.L. LaFevers
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and… — William Faulkner
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness,… — Alexander Hamilton
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too,… — Georgette Heyer
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my… — Tamora Pierce
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . .… — William Wilberforce
In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to… — Mark Driscoll
I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have… — Jacqueline Carey
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their… — Arundhati Roy
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial… — Mark Levin
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. — Oliver Goldsmith
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to… — John Bartholomew Gough
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

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