Foolish Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foolish Gravity Levity Wise
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands....and fly. — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will… — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just… — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
