Folly Quote by Paul Whitehouse Download Open image “They go together, don't they, 'monumental' and 'folly?'” — Paul Whitehouse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Go Monumental Together
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In comedy, if you're going to commission something commission two series, don't commission one because so many comedies are finding their feet and you… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
If you look back at 'The Fast Show,' we always shot it nicely and tried to make it look good as well as funny. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Bob and I got into comedy in a similar way. On the coat-tails of our mates. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Making it big in pop would have suited me fine, although comedy is a far better world for an older person. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than going down the lawn to the river for a few hours in the evening and catching your own supper. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
My dad was a very calm figure in my life and I have only good memories of him. We had a very simple relationship… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Women would never be abusive about physical appearance. It's a no-go area, but it's an icebreaker for men. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
There's more to fishing than catching fish. It's being lost in a timeless world, away from all the chaos outside, doing something that's elemental. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
As more and more new houses get built, they just suck the water out of rivers. — Paul Whitehouse 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
