(216 quotes found)
“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
“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”
Edward Gorey
“The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun”
Benjamin Franklin
“'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s”
Lord Byron
“Those who realize their folly are not true fools”
Chuang Tzu
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
James A. Garfield
“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”
John Webster
“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
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
John Quincy Adams
“APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.”
Ambrose Bierce
