Folly Quotes - Page 4

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

Folly growes without watering.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.