Top 948 Folly Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
Explore popular Folly quotes.
Last updated on November 17, 2024.
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.
