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A fool is a thorn in his own flesh,
and day after day his wounds worsen.
The more he serves folly,
the more foolish he becomes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

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

By their own follies they perished, the fools. — Homer

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. — William Hazlitt

[H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous. — David Guterson

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd — William Shakespeare

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

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

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. — John Howe

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume

Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him. — Melissa Marr

To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly
may someday be won after all. — Isaac Asimov

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity. — Raheel Farooq

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. — Pliny The Elder

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly. — Glen Cook

17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, — Anonymous

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill

Nowhere is human folly more apparent than among those who deem themselves wise enough to order the affairs of others. — Fredric W. Meek

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. — Oliver Goldsmith

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme. — Joseph Addison

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. — William Carlos Williams

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott

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

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex. — Jonathan Swift

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope. — James Thurber

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly. — Isaac Newton

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. — Baltasar Gracian

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as the most flagrant of all passions. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful. — Guy Gavriel Kay

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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