Folly Quotes

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

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

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

America is a fortunate country.
She grows by the follies of our European nations.

The enemy is within the gates;
it is with our own luxury,
our own folly,
our own criminality that we have to contend.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Apathy borders upon folly.

It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

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

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

To stumble twice against the same stone,
is a proverbsial disgrace.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

Folly always knows the answer.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat.,
Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.