Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson English Author More Samuel Johnson Quotes 8
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire French Writer More Voltaire Quotes 3
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 2
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 British Author More George Orwell Quotes 2
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov American Scientist More Isaac Asimov Quotes 2
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. Mason Cooley American Writer More Mason Cooley Quotes 1
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 isn't loved every day. Owen Meredith British More Owen Meredith Quotes 1
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not. Otto von Bismarck Prussian Prime Minister More Otto von Bismarck Quotes 0
These are not just made-up stories. These were real human beings with real choices ? and some folly, ... And this was the single biggest weapons project in the history of humanity. Peter Sellars More Peter Sellars Quotes 0
[But the stakes are rather different from those on the Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.] It would be a folly, ... were it not so dangerous. Robert Pape More Robert Pape Quotes 0
All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy. Robert Burton English Writer More Robert Burton Quotes 0
I can hardly keep wondering at my own folly in thinking it worthwhile to leave my books and garden, even for one day's attendance in the House of Commons. William Wyndam Grenville More William Wyndam Grenville Quotes 0
Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe, A tale of folly and of wasted life, Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife, Ending, where all things end, in death at last. William Morris British Designer More William Morris Quotes 0
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. Bryant H. McGill American Author More Bryant H. McGill Quotes 0
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Novelist More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes 0
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Lord Chesterfield British Statesman More Lord Chesterfield Quotes 0
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill English Statesman More Winston Churchill Quotes 0
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist More George Bernard Shaw Quotes 0
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Richard Whately English Writer More Richard Whately Quotes 0
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Beverly Sills American Musician More Beverly Sills Quotes 0
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson American Scientist More E. O. Wilson Quotes 0
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. Robert South English Clergyman More Robert South Quotes 0
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. Philip Stanhope British Statesman More Philip Stanhope Quotes 0