Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to… — Dan Simmons
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand… — Antonin Artaud
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… — Marquis de Sade
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear… — Unknown Author
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. — Bertrand Russell
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able… — Larry Eisenberg
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this… — Hans F. Sennholz
Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in… — Ward Connerly
Anger and folly walk cheek by sole. — Benjamin Franklin
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. — Philibert Joseph Roux
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of… — Henry Ward Beecher
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. — Unknown Author
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can… — Jane Austen
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently… — Thomas Paine
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson

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