Quotes About Folly

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly.

When lovely woman stoops to folly andPaces about her room again, alone,She smooths her hair with automatic hand,And puts a record on the gramophone.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15).

You've been inexpressibly lucky, " he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then