Quotes About Folly

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an event as that now related, and which, as in the present case, sometimes prolong themselves for ages afterwards, like the toadstools that indicate where the fallen and buried trunk of a tree has long since mouldered into the earth.

Over these many years, I have observed both profound folly and breathtaking wisdom among humankind. They balance each other like dancers in the throes of a passionate tango. It is only when the brutality of the dance overwhelms the beauty that the future is threatened.

Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy," he said. "Tomorrow, we shall live it.

Immortality cannot temper the folly or frailty of youth. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So, we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.

Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.

By a fatal law, a genius is always an idiot.

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

Yedi cücelerin tek t?raÅŸ olan? Ahmak't?. Bu bize, t?raÅŸ olmaktaki bilgelik hakk?nda bir fikir verebilir

When you blow up a major life situation, as I did on two fronts before leaving Richmond, the explosion can leave a hole in your psyche. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and over time the crater is almost certain to fill in with new wisdom -- or fresh folly. Sometimes it can be a challenge to tell the difference.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

Well, now. That's something you will have - a broken heart. Railroad Tommy's eyes softened, but the merriment in them died suddenly. And folly. A whole lot of folly. You can count on it.

the folly of men makes me seriously angry.

It is exceedingly disagreeable to me to learn that thou didst not, from folly, receive what I imparted.

More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different.

It is consummate folly to tolerate every variety of opinion, on every topic, out of devotion to an abstract "liberty"; for opinion soon finds its expression in action, and the fanatics whom we tolerated will not tolerate us when they have power.

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard.

If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love's not always wise, I've learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don't we, Mother?