Folly Quotes - Page 6

• Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

  Pythagoras

  Inspirational, Anger, Rage

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• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mean, Thinking, Who Cares

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• Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Management, Sole

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Sarcasm, Fool

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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• Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Animal, Fire

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Turns, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Numbers, Different

  "The Authentic Mr Abbott". "Four Corners" with Liz Jackson, www.abc.net.au. March 03, 2010.

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• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Teacher, Husband, Party

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• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

  William Cowper

  Judging, Judgement, Fool

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.165

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• April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fools Day, Months, April

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

  William E. Gladstone

  Excess, Rivals, May

  "Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William Ewart Gladstone, 1876.

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.
  [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stones, Proverbial, Disgrace

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• Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
  From reveries so airy, from the toil
  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
  And growing old in drawing nothing up.

  William Cowper

  Drawing, Common Sense, Toil

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 187

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Humanity, Pardon Me

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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• Nous sommes tous oblige  s, pour rendre la re  alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Indulge In, Bearable

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• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  Quintilian

  Wise, Wish, Fool

  "Institutes of Oratory (Volume X)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

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• Do not let me hear
  Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
  Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
  Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
  The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
  Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Men, Endless

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

  Horace

  Littles, Nonsense, Now And Then

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• A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupidity, Littles, Guilty

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.311

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• Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

  Horace

  Long, Add, Deliberation

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• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Plus, Admire

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Keeping Secrets, Kept Secrets

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• Beauty and folly are old companions.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beauty, Liberty, Companion

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2909, BookCaps Study Guides

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