Best Folly Quotes | Quotelers

"It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling."

"Against stupidity, even the gods are helpless."

"There is no fool like an old fool. A storm was coming but the winds were still, and in the wild woods of Broceliande before an oak so hollow huge and old, it looked a tower of ivy, Merlin's feet the wily Vivian lay."

"Crazy is about tilting at windmills full sin and expecting the windmills to fall."

"Sadly though, no amount of gold can fix stupid."

"All sin, especially sex, has the capacity to make us stupid."

"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

"Intelligence doesn't always equal wisdom. You can be smart and foolish at the same time."

"Never underestimate the stupidity of a status yeah like you know they will they will they'll cut their own nose off to spite you like it's despite their face."

"Betraying Divine love for any Earthly end is pure Folly."

"I really like the idea of when they look back on it, they kind of recognize how stupid and indulgent that moment was."

"It's inexcusable folly, it's inexcusable nonsense, and this is what happens when people are in the business of business."

"Professing to be wise, they became fools."

"Who's more foolish the fool or the fool who follows him?"

"A fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

"How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?"

"Carving a throne out of a squid Idol and then parking your Royal Greyjoy ass on it might not have been the brightest idea."

"The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city."

"Because we were fools, arrogant complacent fools."

"All brothers are fools, all lovers are lunatics."

"The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly."

"People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish."

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

"Who's the greater fool: a Mad King or the man who reasons with him?"

"Widowed himself by drunkenly lighting a cigar in bed."

"Everybody should make sure that you have a folly, something that makes no sense, that just adds enjoyment pure and and that can't be justified."

"Without folly there would be no marriage and without marriage, there would be no people."

"He shows us that so much of what we take to be important and serious is in fact folly."

"Most politicians are monuments to folly, they are the great high priests of folly."

"This should be recognized for what it is: another way of following the god is folly rather than following God the Father, the God of the Bible."

"Sin is a kind of deformity of the soul, that it is a kind of folly."

"An act of colossal folly and colossal vanity."

"The folly of youth is that you think you know everything."

"The art of the fool more than anything lies in being in the moment, in improvising."

"Bravery is for the foolish." - Nicholas

"When you get God to the place where you can explain to God God, you're indeed a fool, far away from where you need to be."

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise."

"Just a fool in love, young, dumb, and full of this [ __ ]."

"Look foolish in our generation so that we would reach."

"we are in the world but not of it but we do need foolish Christians"

"Doing wrong is fun for fools, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible."

"There is nothing more serious than a fool."

"I've never seen leaders make more fools of themselves godly men then when they try to predict the future based on their observations of the present."

"Why do we get so foolish every single year y'all for real for real?"

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you also be like him."

"We can be as happy as we are intelligent and we can be as miserable as we are foolish."

"It is not necessary for anybody to be foolish even in a generation of extreme folly."

"When we are born, we cry that we have come to this great stage of fools."

"Greed and folly. They'll always be with us."

"Never bet against stupidity. It's going to come. I agree. We'll have the same thing again."

"Insurrection is a symphony of stupid."

"Their Ambitions were misplaced and these great white super liners would prove to be one of the greatest Follies in the history of Ocean Travel."

"There are many ills in this world that can depress the human spirit: pestilence, plague, famine, drought, the evil drummers of war. But even these horrors pale into insignificance when compared to that ultimate folly of man's own making: the wedding reception."

"He's a blind man on a blind Mission from blind leadership whom Jesus the Christ is turning blind now they're doing foolish things breaking up their world because they're blind."

"The more time that passed, the more that prophecy proved unwise."

"Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time!"

"Educated people can do foolish things, even repeatedly."

"Be a fool thank you congratulations and good luck."

"Pride is the most foolish thing when you highlight your opposers."

"What's one man's folly is another man's justice."

"Part of having Uncommon Sense I think is being able to tune out Folly as distinguished from recognizing wisdom."

"Age definitely doesn't make you wise... 'You're a fool and if you had a bigger head you would be a bigger fool.'"

"The wisdom of this world is folly with God."

"That kind of folly belongs in the self-esteem psychology which is deluding people with exaggerated opinions of themselves."

"I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly."

"Let their knowledge, wisdom, and information be turned into foolishness."

"It's just foolishness. It's like, why?"

"Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness."

"This is ridiculous. This is actually the stupidest thing I've ever done."

"A foolish angel dances with the devil, a foolish angel and a devil both with spread wings."

"The fool goes into it without expectations."

"It will be studied for generations to come in polyi classes as a really dumb move."

"Any master who instructs more than one apprentice in the ways of the dark side, is a fool."

"Humans are fragile, whimsical and stupid, tripping all over life and repeating the same mistakes over and over."

"what good is money in the hands of a fool if they had no desire to seek wisdom"

"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

"A wise person will welcome the messenger, but a foolish person will shoot the messenger."

"He who trusts in himself is a fool."

"Could it be that democracy is such a hit with modern humans precisely because it mirrors our greatest folly?"

"I did something very stupid but it worked."

"We shall answer a fool according to his folly."

"Efficiently doing what should not be done at all, of course, is like a form of madness, right? Like you're speedily going the wrong direction."

"Confidence: it's the food of the wise man but the liquor of the fool."

"The world is full of foolish gamblers."

"It's the dumbest thing I could ever do, but I just keep doing it."

"The ultimate result of earthly wisdom is always confusion and every evil thing."

"The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin."

"Anger lies in the bosom of fools."

"He controls his passions. Then he's a fool."

"The folly of all follies in a situation like this is to think there's anything you can do in the human realm to stop the divine judgment of God."

"It's a story of folly mixed with ego and a good dose of bravery too."

"The only thing stupider than stopping is to keep going."

"Confidence is the food of the wise man and it's the liquor of the fool so when it's food for the wise man and it's meaning it can be used in a very healthy productive way it can't be ignored it's huge man yeah it's a very very big deal."

"Sin makes a person stupid. It has made a lot of us stupid when we sin."

"...the world is full of season fools who don't believe in sensible things..."

"The human race is enormously ingenious and enormously stupid at the same time."

"It was a foolish attempt, but like that, it's these fantastic things that happen very often that come off."

"Your soul demands your Folly not your wisdom."

"A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."

"The war is folly. There are no winners."

"You've chosen the way of the fool, so like a fool, you will have to learn through experience."

"One man's pride is another man's stupidity."

"Violence is always the result of stupidity."

"I once again tried to convince Sam that he was an idiot, and both Jasmine and I chased after him."

"There are many who long for heaven yet miss it altogether through their own folly."

"He who wins souls is wise, and he who thinks he can counsel God is a fool."

"A minute of folly can undo a life of dignity."

"Knowing without doing doesn't make any difference. It makes a fool out of you."

"Anybody who represents himself has a fool for a client."

"Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly."

"The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of understanding."

"Oh lord, said Shakespeare's Puck, what fools these mortals be."

"Stupidity is an unwitting tendency to self-destruction."

"To answer before listening, that is folly and shame."

"Insanity is making the same mistakes again and again, knowing what the results are going to be, but doing it anyway."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice."

"When you love somebody, you do a lot of dumb things."

"Someone somewhere has done something terrifically stupid."

"His courage, truthful and chaste, his foolishness, brings him blows and ridicule but his greatness makes him a worthy instrument of Providence."

"Speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well."

"You are so foolish, but I love you."

"Do not argue with a fool lest you become like him."

"When the Bible talks about someone being a fool, it is talking about someone who rejects the laws of God, the principles of God, and they're going to do it their way."

"If you insist upon being fools, if you've already decided to act like wolves instead of humans, then there's nothing I can say to make you change your minds."

"It's a classical tale of the folly of the aristocracy."

"Love makes people stupid, and I cannot help but be moved by how stupid you are being right now."

"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools."

"You drift into my head and turn me into a crumbling fool."

"If you argue with a fool, you now have two fools arguing."

"The painting represents the scene of folly."

"Anytime you give good advice to a fool, mark my words, he's gonna get angry."

"In his lunacy, Pentheus decided to spy on Dionysius's followers and he went dressed as a woman out in the mountains."

"Pride is foolish. It brings no profit with it. There is no wisdom in self-exaltation."

"Comparing ourselves among ourselves we are not wise."

"We've all made fools of ourselves over women, sir."

"Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time."

"This your request, he counted, is quite insane, and folly finds the man who flirts with the fool."

"Jesus came out of the grave or you and I are the greatest fools the world's ever known."

"It's a raucous funfair of all kinds of activity, every kind of human frolicking and folly and fun and desire and mania that you can possibly imagine."

"Remember, never answer a fool according to his folly."

"People who judge people are idiots."

"The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get."

"Everything I've done has been because I am a fool."

"Where flashes of mechanical and human brilliance run side by side with folly."

"There was goodness in men, though oft times their foolishness overrode it."

"Marin Colin was not a normal man; he was indeed both a fool and a hero."

"Only love makes you that crazy, sweetheart, and that damn stupid."

"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."

"Only the wise will learn, but a fool will never."

"He who gives an answer before he hears it is folly and shame to him."

"It's important how we tend to be loyal to the point where it just becomes something dumb."

"I'm a damn fool, but I'm really so brilliant."

"They got clever and then got stupid; that's a very common thing you see that human beings are real good at doing."

"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly."

"Wickedness is the greatest folly, and folly and wickedness are used as convertible terms in Scripture."

"Who's the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

"Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit."

"Love could make a fool of any man."

"Be grander folly by far to assume the workings of your mind."

"But fools despise wisdom and instruction."

"As it is written, a wise man listens to advice while a fool continues in his folly."

"Heaven help a fool who falls in love."

"What kind of idiot would try and steal a faulty TARDIS? The Doctor, of course."

"If you argue with a fool, you're a fool."

"Play stupid games, and you win stupid prizes."

"If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly."

"That's a special kind of stupid right there."

"It's the food of the wise man but the liquor of the fool."

"He who responds with a word before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him."

"The fool is the person not listening to themselves."

"The most stupid thing that can ever happened to anybody is war."

"Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction."

"These Fords taught me the beauty of folly, of engaging with the world on the world's terms."

"Taught me a good lesson that as power increases, stupidity stays the same."

"People trick themselves into all sorts of ridiculous situations."

"Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him."

"Hasn't God demonstrated that the wisdom of this world system is utter foolishness?"

"We renounced no friendship, but it may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly."

"As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly." - Proverbs 26:11

"You know what they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

"As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer's oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor."

"You can't fix stupid, ladies and gentlemen."

"Who would bury what's left of their fortune beneath the sands just waiting to be uncovered? Fools."

"Deep within all of us lives an idiot, and if you let that idiot dictate your decisions, your life's gonna be rough."

"When you start arguing with a clown, you become a part of the circus."

"A fool is one who refuses God's wisdom and chooses to live their own way."

"If a fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

"Talk about the dumbest criminal ever."

"Trying to be hasty like idiots of stupidity will only lead to your downfall."

"As snow in summer and rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool."

"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him."

"There's overconfidence, and then there's just stupid."

"When a man gets tired, he gets foolish."

"Aurora makes some people famous and some people fools."

"As Stannis once told us, anger makes men stupid."

"Who's the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows them?"

"My wish ran athwart and I ended up a fool of my destiny."

"No one can make a fool out of you without considerable cooperation on your own part."