Pastoral Resources

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

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?

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

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

'Tis folly to be 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.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

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.

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

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

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

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.