Quotes About Folly

He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young

He lit another cigar, and began to brood over the folly of mankind.

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be

C'est folie, bien sûr, que de vouloir soumettre les événements, dans leur ordre aléatoire (et pareillement les humains, dans leur égoïsme naturel), aux règles de la logique ou du simple bon sens. Le monde ne tourne rond que pour les astronomes. Pour le commun des mortels, notre planète va au hasard, lamentable Nef des fous, subissant tour à tour la tempête ou la bonace, et ne trouvant aucun havre sur sa route.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they may be forced to die by them.

Hunt shook his head and quit writing. "I don't understand. You can become this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ messiah Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by leaving your deathbed?" The pale oval of Keats's face moved back and forth on the pillow in a motion which might have been a substitute for laughter. "We all could have, Hunt. Humankind's folly and greatest pride. We accept our pain. We make way for our children. That earned us the right to become the God we dreamed of.

Natalie's father had a saying for that behavior—Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Where love is the case, the doctor's an ass

as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time....

For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Anger makes us all stupid.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Anger without power is folly.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

?nsan?n yapabilece?i itiraflar?n en ac?kl?s?, kendi sersemli?inin itiraf?ndan ba?kas? de?ildir.

But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit—she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool. She

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.