Quotes About Folly

Oh heart! oh blood that freezes, blood that burns!Earth's returnsFor whole centuries of folly, noise and sin!Shut them in,With their triumphs and their glories and the rest!Love is best!

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It was only later that he recognised the folly he had fallen into, a human trait he had long observed: that merely because one wishes to believe in a thing, it does not follow that it is true.

Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was.

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.

The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.

In Montaigne's redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one's mind after a meal, get bored with books, know none of the ancient philosophers and mistake Scipios. A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

At the root of all human tragedy is human folly.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

Demek ki yaÅŸam bir tür ÅŸakayd?: kibrinden, girdiÄŸi bir iddia yüzünden her ÅŸeyi yitirmiÅŸti.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Why does folly often prevail over wisdom in the counsels of princes, and in houses of legislators? God has appointed the rejection of good counsel in order to bring on nations that vengeance that their crimes call down from heaven.

Love mocks good sense. That's its charm and beauty.