Folly Quotes

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

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

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.