Folly Quotes

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Nicholas Murray Butler

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Cicero

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Sir Francis Bacon

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

La Rochefoucauld

Answer a fool according to his folly.

Bible

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.

Erasmus

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

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

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Rex Stout

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition in which he has done brave things with apparent serenity; and everyone reading will say, Fortunate for Ben Hur if the folly which now catches him is but a friendly harlequin with whistle and pointed cap, and not some Violence with a pointed sword pitiless.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

Glen Cook

Progressive thought is blind when it suggests that there can be no anti-white racism or an anti-semitism among the formerly oppressed or the young people in the projects because they themselves have suffered from this evil. They are the victims; they are exempt from the prejudices that affect the majority of the population. But the reverse is true: racism is multiplying at exponential rates among groups and communities, taboos are collapsing, and everything is explained in terms of physical characteristics, identity, purity, and difference. and this is a racism that is all the more certain that it is right because it is regarded as a legitimate reaction on the part of the persecuted. now we see the obsession with the pedigree and the old distinctions derived from slavery being revived, and prejudices accumulating in the name of racism. This is the end of the concept of humanity as union in diversity and the triumph of human species incompatible with each other.

Pascal Bruckner

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about.' And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it--have slaves fight each other to death in the Colosseum, or burn people alive in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in industrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

Patrick Rothfuss

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

Michael Bassey Johnson