Folly Quotes - Page 9

• As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

  Samuel Richardson

  Happiness, Children, Men

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.27

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• It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Height

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• It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Wish

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• The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happy, Philosophical, Inspiration

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.15, Cosimo Classics

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• All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Self Improvement, Youth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.172

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

  Ellen G. White

  Pride, Blessing, Agency

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book I of IV".

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• I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

  George Will

  Government, Hands, Years

  "George Will's Libertarian Evolution". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, reason.com. December, 2013.

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Race, Progress

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• ... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Arms, Wonder, Walks

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• Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

  Georgette Heyer

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

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• Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Victory, Despair

  The Sound and the Fury pt. 2 (1929)

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• You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Horse, Kings, Men

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Lioness Rampant”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

  William Wilberforce

  Character, Eye, Men

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• In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

  Mark Driscoll

  Wise, Husband, Book

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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• I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hands, Fool, Claims

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• He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

  Steven Erikson

  Suicide, Men, Dragons

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• 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 can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Congress And The President

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• If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

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• In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Time, Towns, Faster

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller”, p.234

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