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Folly Quotes

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Life Thought Away Folly Dread Once

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Wit Weapon Folly His Foe

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Wisdom Day Worst Folly For The Day

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

Wisdom People Free Folly Combined

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Time Wise Everything Delay Folly

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Wisdom Folly Proceeds

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

Best Plan Profit Others Folly

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Progress War Reason Well Folly Much

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

Funny Wife Man Folly Another

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Friend May Folly Part Rebuke

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Wisdom Experience Old Us Folly

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Laughter Manners Folly Loud Ill

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

Charles Simmons

Wisdom Age Next Folly Much

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise Without Who Folly Thinks He

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nothing Reason Folly Cleverness

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Stars Human Folly Does Turning

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Anger Repentance Begins Folly Ends

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

God Man Me Human Make Folly

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise Want Height Only Folly

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Knowledge Limit Exploitation Folly

Folly always knows the answer.

Always Answer Folly Knows

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Woman Me Looks Only Books Folly

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Alexander Hamilton

Government People Nothing Will Folly

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom Alone Great Wise Wish Folly

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