[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer.
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.
The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ i...
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
My dreams are all follies.
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping o...
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Folly always knows the answer.
'Tis folly to be wise.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.
'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante....She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a f...
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is...
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.
The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
