Quotes About Folly

I would never find a bank launched for worse reasons by more inept men.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.