Quotes About Folly

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

Take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

But that, Flavius, hardly nice or honest This thy folly, methinks Catullus also

Anger without power is folly.

I purpose to relate to you of a marquess, not an act of magnificence, but a monstrous folly, which, albeit good ensued to him thereof in the end, I counsel not any to imitate, for it was a thousand pities that weal betided him thereof.

Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

Unsere Narrheiten bezahlen wir gar gerne selbst, zu unsern Tugenden sollen andere das Geld hergeben.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

Beauty and folly are sisters.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.