Folly Quote by George Herbert

“Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.”

— Frank Herbert

“Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there…

— Oscar Wilde

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

— George Herbert

“We weep for gladness, weep for grief; The tears they are the same; We sigh for longing, and relief; The sighs have but one…

— George MacDonald

“If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?”

— Tyra Lynn

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

“...a house divided against itself will fall.”

— Cortez Law III

“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled…

— Anne Rice

“Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)”

— Phyllis Theroux

“Yet within a miles, Margaret knew of house after house, where she would for her own sake, and her mother for her Aunt Shaw's,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

— George Herbert

“Ruin followed, like the echo of a bitter cry, or the shadow that hunts with the beast of prey.”

— Oscar Wilde