Folly Quotes

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

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

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

'Tis folly to be wise.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

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

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

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?

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.