Folly Quotes

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

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

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

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

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.