Folly Quotes

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.