Quotes about Folly

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.