Quotations
Quotes:
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few, but such as cannot write, translate. ('To Richard Fanshaw' 1648)
View quotes by Sir John Denham
When lovely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
View quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as Melancholy
View quotes by Robert Burton
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. (Essays, 1891)
View quotes by Herbert Spencer
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
View quotes by Pliny The Elder
It is folly to punish your neighbour by fire when you live next door.
View quotes by Publilius Syrus
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us
View quotes by Paul Valery
My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
View quotes by Thomas Moore
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
View quotes by Warren Buffett
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
View quotes by Lord Byron
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
View quotes by Miguel De Cervantes
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
View quotes by Herbert Spencer
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
View quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
View quotes by Thomas Szasz
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
View quotes by Epicurus
One man's folly is another man's wife.
View quotes by Helen Rowland
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Proverbs:
Better To Meet A Bear Robbed Of Her Cubs Than A Fool In His Folly
There Is No Jollity But Hath A Smack Of Folly
Folly Grows Without Watering
Zeal Without Knowledge Is The Sister Of Folly
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