Quotes About Folly

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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

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

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.

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

Only it is right to bear in mind one fact, that, admitting the lawfulness of the coup d'état, you must not object to the dictatorship. And, admitting the temporary necessity of the dictatorship, it is absolute folly to expect under it the liberty and ease of a regular government.

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

Luxury employ'd a million of the poor, and odious pride a million more; Envy itself and vanity were ministers of industry; Their darling folly, fickleness In diet, furniture, and dress, That strange ridic'lous vice, was made The very wheel that turn'd the trade.

Now, thanks to Erasmus's In Praise of Folly, a contempt for universities and their Aristotle-centered curriculum acquired intellectual chic.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

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

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Criminals of folly? Ye but sin against self

Opposition without love leads to violence; loving the wrong-doer without opposing the evil in him is folly and leads to misery.

The folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.

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

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

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

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible.