| "The best plan is to profit by the folly of others." »Pliny the Elder |
| "Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom." »Horace |
| "He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly." »Jonathan Swift |
| "The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door." »Publilius Syrus |
| "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people." »James Abram Garfield |
| "There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." »John Lancaster Spalding |
| "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." »Herbert Spencer |
| "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind." »Julius Rosenwald |
| "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." »Paul Valery |
| "Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise." »Thomas Gray |
| "It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs." »Richard Needham |
| "To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom." »Horace |
| "If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem." »Theodore Roszak |
| "You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough." »Aldous Huxley |
| "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 |
| "In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "One man's folly is another man's wife." »Helen Rowland |
| "If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." »John B. Gough |
| "One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller |
| "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton |
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