Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is… — George Washington
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of… — George Gissing
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. — Paul Gauguin
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. — William Tecumseh Sherman
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin
Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord,… — George MacDonald
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. — John Owen
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled… — Thomas Brooks
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply… — Tony Abbott
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right… — Martin Parr
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of… — Morris West
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana
The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my… — Margaret Thatcher
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too… — Steven Erikson
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their… — Jonathan Mayhew
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. — Sri Aurobindo
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who… — Royal Robbins
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,… — H. L. Mencken
Experiment is folly when experience shows the way. — Roger Babson
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. — Thomas Keneally
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a… — Philip Gourevitch

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