Folly Quotes

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.