Quotes About Folly

In the clairvoyance of this despair he had seen how much his folly had already damaged both of them.

Spud has two expressions: totally-scoobied-as-to-what-the-fuck's-going-on and the constantly-on-the-verge-of-tears look he is currently deploying. Assailed with self pity and self loathing, regarding his folly in sitting next to Begbie, he glances around. - Aye... it's bad, like say, he concedes, wondering how he can manoeuvre into another seat.

Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred

To mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.

Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.

We are to do nothing, is that right, except to wait in quiet serenity and utter faith for the deus ex machina to pop out of the Vault?" "Stripped of your emotional phraseology, that's the idea." "Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it." Fara smiled indulgently. "Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

A fool's head never whitens.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

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

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.