Folly Quote by Richard Adams Download Open image ““A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.”” — Richard Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Richard-adams Truth Watership-down
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“Suddenly it seemed as if he might a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again. He… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Sorry to burst your bubble, lass, but the truth is important. Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found,… — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
“Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn’t… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard you try, things don't always turn out the way you wish they could.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.” — Douglas Jerrold Copy Share Image
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“There's terrible evil in the world." It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Then El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too clever for him and he was frightened. He thought that the fox and the weasel were coming… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon,… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. — Richard Adams 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 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
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
