Folly Quotes
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The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.
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History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.
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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
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If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
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He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.
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Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.
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There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
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No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
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A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies.
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Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
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Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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