Decorum Quote by Philip K. Jason

Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

— William Cowper

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

— George Bernard Shaw

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but…

— Honore de Balzac

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very…

— Joseph Addison

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their…

— BENTLEY LITTLE

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A beguiling optimism is often the first step toward folly.”

— Phillip Lewis

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration…

— William Godwin

“the unbearable persistence of hope”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will…

— Rebecca Solnit