#folly

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ↗

— Andre Norton

#beyond #blind #cat #folly #him

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. ↗

— Robert Owen

#courts #folly #found #law #paraphernalia

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

#always #anything #business #business career #career

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

#desires #enlarges #folly #lessens #men

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#folly #guarantee #laws #ought #possessors

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

— Helen Rowland

#another #folly #man #wife

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#happy #humor #laughed #men #their

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. ↗

— Alcaeus

#bowed #drinking #folly #gained #grief

I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on makeup and other nonessentials, to make her worship every biological moment she was offered instead of some badly punctured deity. I also wanted to kiss her for some reason, feel the life pulsing in those big Catholic lips, remind myself of the primacy of the living animal, of my time amongst the Romans. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#religions #roman #change

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#folly #wisdom #age