Quotes About Folly

It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go. If there was a single chance at happiness with him, I was determined to seize it.

John Tradescant the Younger in 1638 were improved upon by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in 1753 with the addition of an artificial lake featuring an island. Brown is also responsible for constructing the hill at the edge of the garden which is crowned with the famous Pineapple Pavilion folly.'

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?

The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum as in the writings of a Cervantes or a Shakespeare, or in the deep psychological insights and cries of revolt of a Nietzsche.

History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man.

Major Reid smiled cynically. "I have never been able to see how a thirty-year-old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year-old genius . . . but that was the age of the 'divine right of the common man.' Never mind, they paid for their folly.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.

I think we'd had enough of this folly. Who ever heard of a door-mat TELLING anyone anything? They simply don't do it. They are not that sort at all. Door-mats know their place.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.