The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
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.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly. ]
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.