Folly Quotes

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

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.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

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.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

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

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.