Quotes on Folly

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

Author: George Ade

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Author: Mary Astell

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Author: William Blake

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Author: William Blake

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Author: Andrew Bradley

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Folly always knows the answer.

Author: Mason Cooley

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Author: Pliny Elder

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Author: Thomas Gray

'Tis folly to be wise.

Author: Thomas Gray

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Author: Anthony Hope

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Author: Samuel Hopkins

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Author: Leon Kass

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Author: Thomas Keneally

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

Author: Jonathan Mayhew

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Author: John Reagan

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Author: Tom Robbins

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

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Author: Joseph Roux

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Author: Antonin Scalia

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

Author: William Sumner

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.

Author: Queen Victoria

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Author: Zhuangzi