Top 948 Folly Quotes & Sayings

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

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

Apathy borders upon folly.

To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

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.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Folly always knows the answer.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Folly growes without watering.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

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.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

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.

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

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.

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.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

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.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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.

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Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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

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

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

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

'Tis folly to be wise.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

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.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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.

Anger without power is folly.