Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. — Lord Byron
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone.… — Charles Spurgeon
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. — Richard Dawkins
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or… — Julia Glass
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America. — Brian Kilmeade
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. — Beverly Sills
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. — Publilius Syrus
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. — Richard Cecil
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. — Matthew Hale
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. — Charles Simmons
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and… — John Howe
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. — William Samuel Johnson
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it… — Samuel Hopkins
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed… — John Bright
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free… — John Brough
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. — Leon Kass
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Those who realize their folly are not true fools. — Zhuangzi
His foe was folly and his weapon wit. — Anthony Hope
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. — John Webster
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of… — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. — William Blake
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security… — Michael Hayden

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