#folly

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #cry #did #distress #enough

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

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#folly #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #tis #where

'Tis folly to be wise. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#tis #wise

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#morality #religion #religious-extremism #religion

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

#dread #folly #life #once #parcels

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

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