#folly

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. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#business #detect #either #expose #eyes

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#folly #nothing #obstinacy #reason

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

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

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

— Publilius Syrus

#fire #folly #live #neighbor #next

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always. ↗

— Karen White

#love

He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd ↗

— Marthe Jocelyn

#funny #james #marthe-jocelyn #funny

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#frog #humor #mind #ode #poetry

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away! ↗

— Walter Scott

#heart #love #love

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! ↗

— Major Thomas

#drive #folly #grace #greed #joy

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. ↗

— William Faulkner

#men #women #men