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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.