(216 quotes found)
“MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules”
Samuel Johnson
“Poor Catullus, cease your folly and give up for lost what you see is lost.”
Catullus
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
William Blake
“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking”
Alcaeus
“I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Religion; humanity's greatest folly, greatest curse”
Kevin Harris
“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”
Ovid
“The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish”
Oliver Goldsmith
