A Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Rudyard Kipling

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Always Another Another Man Folly Man Meddling Thankless Work

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Rudyard Kipling
English - Novelist
December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Kyra Sedgwick

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

Mark Twain

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

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Francis Bacon

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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

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

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

Walter Scott

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Mark Twain

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

Jon Stewart

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Mary Wortley Montagu

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.