Folly Quote by Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Download Open image “Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.” — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Heed Inspirational Personal growth Personal growth and development Self -awareness Self growth Small voice Stills Voice
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step… — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which… — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand 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
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
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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
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image