Folly Quotes - Page 40

• I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

  Mason Cooley

  Regret, Fear, Youth

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• Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Joy, Sorrow, Frivolous

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• Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
  This life is most jolly.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Hollies, Life Is

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• Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

  Mason Cooley

  Sulking, Resentment, Silent

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• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  George Pope Morris

  Desire, World, Wealthy

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• When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Dark, Matter

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Useless, Reputation

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• Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

  Norm MacDonald

  Over You, May, Lasts

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• Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Politics, Hunger, Exposed

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• No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Mistake

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Running, Errors, Goal

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

  Catherine Doherty

  Faith, Kind

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• Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Imperfection, Shadow

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• Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

  Walter Raleigh

  Trust, Men, Self Trust

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• Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Demand, Littles, Sometimes

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• There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Example, Disorder, Catching

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• There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Choices, Fool

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• He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
  [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Thinking, Sage

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• A fool has not material enough to be good.
  [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fool, Enough, Be Good

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• The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reason, Intellect, Generalities

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• In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Age, Levity

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• The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Years, Vivacity

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• To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

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• As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Age, Increase

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• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Vanity, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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