#folly

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#folly #honest #honesty #long #men

A good folly is worth what you pay for it. ↗

— George Ade

#good #pay #worth #you

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

#folly #loves #martyrdom

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#folly #greater #man #than #world

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#folly #frequent #ill #laughter #loud

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗