Folly Quotes

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

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

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

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.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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

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

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

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.

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

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

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

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Folly always knows the answer.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.