When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they’re used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we...

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man...

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow!...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools

The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there’s an end to it: his annihilation is final...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

The folly that man doesOr must suffer, if he woosA proud woman not kindred of his soul.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”(The Decider, July 21, 2007)

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money....

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond’s shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false....

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do

Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all passions.

4.10 ANGERAnger makes a dull man witty,But keeps him poor in eternity,A man shrinks when he is angry,And grows in tranquil serenity.[90]- 4When anger flow in the body,You lose your temper – your folly,When distempered...

Tant que mes jambes me permettent de fuir, tant que mes bras me permettent de combattre, tant que l’expérience que j’ai du monde me permet de savoir ce que je peux craindre ou désirer, nulle...

A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it’s gold...

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

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of...

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any...

Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition in which he has done brave things with apparent serenity; and everyone reading...

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

…and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!