Folly Quotes

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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.

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.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

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 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.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.