Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time ...
Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dre...
Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de ...
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some nee...
Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his ow...
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
