Folly Quotes - Page 3

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Fools are not mad folks.

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

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.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

The shortest follies are the best.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Anger without power is folly.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.