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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. — Charles Churchill

And this do I say also to the o'erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. — George Bernard Shaw

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell

Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly — Claude C. Hopkins

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly. — Baltasar Gracian

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly. — William Penn

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly. — Plautus

Is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. — William Gibson

Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it! — Raheel Farooq

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically. — Jane Jacobs

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world. — William Graham Sumner

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly. — Tobias Smollett

Wisdom at times is found in folly. — Horace

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world. — Moliere

He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd — Marthe Jocelyn

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. — Michael Lewis

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. — Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. — John Webster

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli

Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts! — J.D. Salinger

The folly of one man is the fortune of another. — Francis Bacon

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. — William Shakespeare

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom. — David Eddings

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance — William Shakespeare

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. — Michael R. Burch

Folly and evil are disciples of doom;
wisdom and righteousness are servants of life. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

Free yourself from folly by surrendering to wisdom;
free yourself from evil by surrendering to God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly. — Thomas Cole

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

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — T. S. Eliot

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. — Mary Astell

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse. — John Quincy Adams

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly. — Sophocles

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. — George William Curtis

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. — Tracy Chevalier

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. — Sinclair Lewis

Men are perplexed by the complexity of life;
angels are perplexed by the folly of men. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly's seeds produce fruits of death. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly. — Emile Augier

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not. — Leonid Andreyev

'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray

And the magnitude of his own folly was at last laid bare. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Ignorance of ourselves must be folly. — A.L.O.E.

I am the very child of caprice and folly. — Walter Scott

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting. — Edward Weston

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools? — Erasmus

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. — Neil Gaiman

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises. — Orrin Woodward

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

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

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes. — Ayn Rand

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. — George Eliot

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom. — Mason Cooley

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands. — Patrick Rothfuss

The fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly — Spencer Johnson

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that. — Benjamin Franklin

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. — Publilius Syrus

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce

Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness! — Charles Dickens

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know. — Philip Pullman

Covering discretion with a coat of folly. — William Shakespeare

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me. — Thomas Moore

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. — Minor White

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

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Gautama Buddha

If folly disappeared, wit would starve. — Mason Cooley

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary. — Samuel Johnson

Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal

For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for. — Cassandra Golds

8I will hear what God the LORD will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly. — Anonymous

Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! — Joyce Carol Oates

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

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books. — Gail Z. Martin

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly. — Galen