Folly Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Humor Laughed Men
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see,… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . .… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
“Recent research suggests that while both men and women say they like a “good sense of humor” in a potential mate, they differ in… — Glenn Geher Copy Share Image
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.” — Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
