Folly Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

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

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.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.