Folly Quote by Pierre Charron Download Open image “The shortest follies are the best.” — Pierre Charron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Funny Inspirational Love
People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great. — Bob Lefsetz Copy Share Image
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I can be impatient. I can be a bit short sometimes. You're nearly always shortest with those who are most important to you. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. — Pierre Charron 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
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
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image