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

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

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

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?