Quotes about Folly

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Why does folly often prevail over wisdom in the counsels of princes, and in houses of legislators? God has appointed the rejection of good counsel in order to bring on nations that vengeance that their crimes call down from heaven.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Fools make a mock at sin.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.