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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
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
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
— William Hazlitt
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[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
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
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
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
Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
— Raheel Farooq
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
— Pliny The Elder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
— Francis Bacon