There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.
My dreams are all follies.
All places are filled with fools. [Lat. , Stultorum plenea sunt omnia. ]
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue. . . nor afford us any exclusive trade. . . is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat. , Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia. ]
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.
The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.
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.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
