A Quote by Robert Indiana

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

Robert Indiana

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American American Dream Dream Ending Folly Look Our Up

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Robert Indiana
American - Artist
Born: September 13, 1928

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

Sheldon Whitehouse

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Samuel Johnson

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

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

George Eliot

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Walter Scott

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Winston Churchill

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

Samuel Adams

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

William Penn

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.