Folly Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

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.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

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

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

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

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

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

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.