Folly Quote by Plautus Download Open image “It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.” — Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Hounds Sheer Unwilling
If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together. — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
With but a single exception, foxes too enjoy the chase. — The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“Give me leave, lord, and I will be the best of your hounds – but if a dog be driven out, he will become… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
“They are brothers to the fox who boasted that he had made the hounds run…” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding. — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks...Better keep biscuits & Move on. — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.] — Plautus 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