Beauty and folly are old companions.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.
Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
One man's folly is another man's wife.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. . . Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.