Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

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

Helen Rowland

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

George Herbert

Folly growes without watering.

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

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.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious

George Herbert

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best.

George MacDonald

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

George Ade

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

William Butler Yeats

The folly that man doesOr must suffer, if he woosA proud woman not kindred of his soul.