To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
Folly always knows the answer.
The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.
I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.
Fools are not mad folks.
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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!
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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