Quotes of: Follies Keyword

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

Billy Corgan

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Antonin Scalia

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Zhuangzi

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

The truth of the story lies in the details.

The Brooklyn Follies

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

William Graham Sumner

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Edward Gorey

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Richard Cecil