Quotes About Folly

For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad!

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. But as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

What time o' day? ROSALINE: The hour that fools should ask.

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.

Dolor moderado indica amor; dolor en exceso, pura necedad.

The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. King Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness

Why, I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, and bad they will be, until men are better; for they are bad men that make bad times; if men, therefore, would mend, so would the times. It is a folly to look for good days so long as sin is so high, and those that study its nourishment so many

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

La esperanza es una cosa peligrosa, pensó Raisa. Una vez encendida es difícil de apagar. Vuelve a las personas sabias en necios.

Love is not merely a weapon. It is not a strategy, and it may or may not work. To do good to those who hate you is such stupendous folly that it cannot be expected to work. Love didn't work for Jesus.