Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.
The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.
The shortest follies are the best. [Fr. , Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures. ]
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
. . . on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.