Pastoral Resources

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

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.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

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

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

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

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

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

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

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.