134 Quotations with Folly.
- 1. Helen Rowland: One man's folly is another man's wife.
- 2. Benjamin Franklin: If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- 3. Publilius Syrus: It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
- 4. John Lancaster Spalding: Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if h ...
- 5. Aldous Huxley: Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
- 6. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
- 7. Austin Farrar: "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is wa ...
- 8. Joseph Addison: It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness t ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infanc ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acq ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 17. George Bernard Shaw: A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art ...
- 18. Paul Valery: The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torr ...
- 19. Richard Adams: A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
- 20. John Comenius: To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a differ ...
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