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Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.
Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
