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Folly Quotes

"There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed."
Buddha
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
Samuel Johnson
"And so being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy"
Edgar Allan Poe
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw
"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel."
Arundhati Roy
"There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men "
Herman Melville
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Clever in small things, foolish in bigger ones."
Benjamin Franklin
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
Aesop
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