A Quote by George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

John Lithgow

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

Rza

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Francis Quarles

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Francis Quarles

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

Andre Agassi

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

Skitch Henderson

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

George Eliot

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

Isaac Barrow

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Aeschylus

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

William Allen White

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

Agnes Repplier

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Walter Savage Landor

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Zac Efron

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

Jay Leno

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