“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 Rosten
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.”
Tom Robbins
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy”
William Shakespeare
“Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?”
Pat Robertson
“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.”
Bible
“And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.”
