Folly Quotes

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc...

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparent...

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repea...

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined t...

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most cer...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and en...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

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

For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' an...

We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and f...

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the ...

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and wh...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my belo...

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.