Folly Quotes - page 4

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, - the very fashion of which "passeth away." (François Fénelon)
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! View quote
John Fletcher
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. View quote
Thomas Gray
Folly growes without watering. View quote
George Herbert
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. View quote
George Herbert
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. View quote
Joseph Roux
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited. View quote
Richard Cobden
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one is n't loved every day. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. View quote
Bertrand Russell
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity. (Albert Camus)
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons. View quote
Tony Abbott
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. View quote
A. E. Housman
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. View quote
Jane Austen
Vanity, not love, has been my folly. View quote
Jane Austen
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. View quote
Jane Austen
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? View quote
George MacDonald
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. View quote
Paul Gauguin
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly. View quote
William Faulkner
... no battle is ever won ... they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. View quote
William Faulkner
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity. (Carl Jung)
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. View quote
Thucydides
It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears. View quote
Douglas Adams
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. View quote
Thomas More