Cultivation Quote by Hosea Ballou

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

— Horace

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

— Deborah Needleman

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

— Benjamin Franklin

Folly growes without watering.

— George Herbert

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

— Norm MacDonald

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

— Richard Cecil

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

— Ayn Rand

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

— Gore Vidal

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.”

— Philip Pullman