Quotes of: Follies Keyword

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson

Must this with farce and folly rack my head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?

Juvenal

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

I suppose that I found out two more constituents of the eternal engine: folly and curiosity.

Alexander Zalan

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Warren Buffett

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Queen Victoria

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

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

Franklin's Folly

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Indiscretion

The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Leon Kass

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Shelby Foote

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Mason Cooley

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson