Folly Quotes - Page 5

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

My dreams are all follies.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.