Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that bursts into fire All this week. Senses her infinite smallness But can’t seize it, Recognizes the folly of desire, The folly of withd...
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.
Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
