Quotes About Folly

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

It occurred to him, as he glided over the whispering lagoons, that the power of Nature could not be shortened by the folly, nor her beauty altogether saddened by the misery of such as Leonard.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.

The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

A fool's paradise.

Fools make a mock at sin.

The discourse of fools is irksome.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.

There was a man in our town,And he was wondrous wise;He jumped into a bramble bushAnd scratched out both his eyes.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.