#folly

'Tis folly to be wise. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#tis #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. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#morality #religion #religious-extremism #religion

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. ↗

— John Howe

#dread #folly #life #once #parcels

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

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#folly #honest #honesty #long #men

A good folly is worth what you pay for it. ↗

— George Ade

#good #pay #worth #you

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#cannot #checking #contain #enlist #everyone

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

— Herbert Spencer

#fill #folly #fools #men #result

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly