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

If one's lot is cast among fools it is necessary to study folly. — Alexandre Dumas

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

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. — Juvenal

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry. — John Lancaster Spalding

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury

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

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love. — Teddy Crispin

History will remember the Superdome debacle - caused by the dearth of evacuation buses - as "Nagin's Folly," mayoral incompetence of the first order. — Douglas Brinkley

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. — Robert South

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. — Benjamin Franklin

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. — Rudyard Kipling

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. — Richard Paul Evans

Folly is very often wisdom's companion. — Publilius Syrus

Wisdom's slaves are better than folly's kings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow. — Richard Whately

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

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. — Sophocles

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules. — George Crabbe

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. — Dan Simmons

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind's grandiose sense of greatness. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human. — Billy Corgan

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

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P.T. Barnum

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

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly — C.S. Lewis

I discovered that the wisdom of the world, and a great deal of its folly also, is to be found in the pages of books. And — C.S. Lewis

It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age! — S.J. Cameron

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. — Cecil Day-Lewis

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly. — A.S. King

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it. — Helen Keller

It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A fool's bolt is soon shot. — William Shakespeare

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One man's folly is another man's wife. — Helen Rowland

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's — Aldous Huxley

It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, everyone else will know. — Catherine Fisher

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. — Ian Fleming

It is worse than folly ... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. — Pearl S. Buck

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy

But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire. — W. Somerset Maugham

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death. — Lysa TerKeurst

But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you. — Raheel Farooq

The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed! — Anonymous

Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly? — George Henry Boker

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake! — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden. — Anthony Trollope

We renounce no friendship. But it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. And — J.R.R. Tolkien

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. — Winston S. Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length. — Jane Brereton

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's. — William Law

Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy. — Patrick Rothfuss

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. — Samuel Rogers

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

Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed! — Thomas Hardy

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

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. — John Sterling

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom. — George Eliot

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. — Ambrose Bierce

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw

It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly. — Catherine M. Wilson

You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way. — Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

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

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

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