“A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“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
“Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.”
Tom Robbins
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?”
Pat Robertson
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism”
Winston Churchill