Quotes of: Folly Keyword

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

Aniruddha Sastikar

History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.

Love

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Life

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Cyril Connolly

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. I...

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Dead Man's Folly

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

The Road to Grace

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Mudwoman

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Scarlett Thomas

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Watership Down

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce