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

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!

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have...

For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the ‘natives,’ and so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him…...

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn’t be racing to begin with. Or is it...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

There’s fool’s gold—pyrite—and then there’s fool’s gold—gold owned by idiots willing to trade it for worthless dollars.

Stupidity is not a behavior; it’s a religion. One can die for it!

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ‘never had a chance, poor devil’, you are profoundly mistaken. One...

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward...

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it’s when the idiot laughs at you.

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

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.