Folly Quotes

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

Wisdom’s slaves are better than folly’s kings.

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

Wisdom is simple but profound.Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.