Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Alphonsus Liguori

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

A. J. P. Taylor

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Jane Austen

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Euripides

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

Gregory Maguire

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Orson Scott Card

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

Mark Buchanan

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Horace

For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.

Bertrand Russel

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Bible Bible

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.