Quotes About Folly

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

It is irony, is it not, that you live so short a time, and waste so much of it being stupid?

luck belongs to children and madmen.

On regarde souvent comme des fous les hommes de passion et les visionnaires

No, no, said Taran slowly, It would be folly to think of attacking them. He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. The bards would sing of us, he admitted, but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

De lo que no cabía la menor duda era de que el amor te envenenaba, te embrutecía, te hacía cometer todo tipo de tonterías y desmesuras.

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

La storia è spesso frutto di una leggerezza. Il frutto bastardo della stupidità umana, un parto dell'obnubilazione, dell'idiozia e della pazzia. In questi casi la storia è opera di gente che non sa quello che fa, anzi che neanche lo vuole sapere, che respinge quest'eventualità con rabbia e disgusto. La vediamo precipitarsi verso la propria rovina, irretirsi da sola, annodarsi il cappio, verificare con cura che reti e cappi siano solidi, resistenti, efficaci.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

Is it not natural that the madman, ignorant of his folly, should attempt things beyond his power?

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better.

A bölcsesség úgy áramlik a balgasághoz, mint az ész az érzelmekhez. S a világban sokkal több az érzelem, mint az ész. Ami az életet mozgásban tartja, az élet forrása a balgaság. Mert mi egyéb a szerelem? Miért házasodik az ember, ha nem balgaságból, mely soha nem ismer akadályt? Minden élvezet, minden szórakozás csak a balgaság f?szere.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.