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!