Folly Quotes

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. - Mark Twain

Who is the wise? Not he who from the start
With Wisdom's followers has taken part;
But he who looks in Folly's tempting eyes,
And turns away, perceiving her disguise. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. - Desiderius Erasmus

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? - Oliver Goldsmith

When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, / And puts a record on the gramophone. - T.S. Eliot

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

When it comes to punishing this murderous folly, France will be at the side of the United States. - Jacques Chirac

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. - Voltaire

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. - John Howe