Own Folly Quotes

16 Own Folly quotes by 13 unique authors

• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
• These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer
• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright
• By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Gautama Buddha
• A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray
• God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw
• ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
• What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… — George MacDonald
• Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
• 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
• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something… — Samuel Johnson
• I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in… — Unknown Author
• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright

Who Wrote These Own Folly Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Own Folly Quotes as follows:

• 2 Own Folly Quotes by William Faulkner
• 2 Own Folly Quotes by J. William Fulbright
• 1 Own Folly Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Joseph Conrad
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Homer
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Henry George
• 1 Own Folly Quote by George MacDonald
• 1 Own Folly Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Own Folly Quote by Gautama Buddha