Folly Quotes
Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
2958 Marty Rubin
How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
4538 Richard Adams
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
3337 Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
4909 Samuel Johnson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
2856 Major Thomas
His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!
1482 Marty Rubin
The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.
2183 Vera Nazarian
Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.
2830 Charles Dickens
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
2273 Bill Maher
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."
(The Decider, July 21, 2007)
3797 William Blake
The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
4158 Robert A. Heinlein
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
1381 G.K. Chesterton
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
1413 Barbara W. Tuchman
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.
3857 Walter Scott
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
2147 Stephen King
Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...
3067 Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
1038 Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
4774 Raheel Farooq
Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!
4034 George Orwell
For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
2437 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
3572 Gautama Buddha
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
1040 William Faulkner
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
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