(211 quotes found)
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism”
Winston Churchill
“If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.”
William Shakespeare
“Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty”
George Bernard Shaw
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
D.H. Lawrence
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
Proverb
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit”
“It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”
Denis Diderot
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