Folly Quotes

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

The shortest follies are the best.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

Fools are not mad folks.

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.