Folly Quotes

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Apathy borders upon folly.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.