Folly Quotes
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
