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Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.”

Knows Should Choices Given Chance Folly Sacraments

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”

Ifs One Thing Pride Folly

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”

Bears Sorrow Comfort Hardest Folly Wickedness

Book:THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)

Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)

“Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”

Hard Lost Opinion Forever Forgiving Vices Folly Offense Hard To Forgive

Author:Jane Austen

“"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."”

People Thinking Should Littles Use Girl Perfect Boys Wise Worship Faults Caring Likes Folly Friendly Wise People I Like Him

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”

People World Life Suffering Break Fronts Wall Built Folly Reserves Blindness Shyness Break Out

Book:Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.”

Heard Folly Cousin

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister

“And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”

Love Life Inspirational Young Marriage Folly Melancholy

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

Want Should Hurt Impossible Accomplishment Folly Inheritance

Book:Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

Source: Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

Thinking Men Destiny Depends Folly Misunderstanding Reckless Miscalculations

Author:Yasmina Khadra

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

Strange Just One Folly Monotonous

Book:Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Source: Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

“Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.”

Needs Hands Wish Poor Too Much Wise Spread Riches Folly Honey Bees Weary Joyous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

Ifs Men World Hands Pain Lying Evil Waiting Fate Mankind Filled Misery Corners Noise Folly Upper Hand Wait For Him Misery And Pain

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”

People Ifs Knows Way Done Ought Silly Cease Folly Sensible Wickedness Being Silly Silly Things

Author:Jane Austen

“Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.”

Hard Folly Desperation

Book:A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Source: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.”

Ifs Wells Heart Courses My Own Trouble Judging Constant Privilege Pursue Folly Agitation

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

“That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.”

Men Realizing Sweet Eternal Bones Flesh Folly Chasing

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.”

Men Way Humans Self Eye Fear Born Human Beings Ignorance Blind Folly Apartment Loathing Self Loathing Blind Man

Author:Dean Koontz

“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.”

Should Humans Passion Lines Emotion Concerned Hatred Treats Vices Envy Planes Folly Efficacy

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”

Knows Trying Doe Philosophy Facts Acting Principles Know How Wise Ignorance Intellectual Discovery Bliss Folly Agnostic Neurotic Being Wise Skeptic Escaping Neurosis Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Alan Watts

“If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?”

Ifs Knows Heart Mother Wish Grief Wise Chains I've Learned Folly If I Could Consent

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.”

Long Past Forget Conversation Conscious Blessed Remembered Folly Forget It Uneducated

Author:E. M. Forster

“No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.”

Thinking Said Would Be Position Appreciate Folly Attacking Bards

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”

Enough Quality Virtue Failing Faults Folly

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.”

“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”

Inspirational Ends Anger Rage Folly Repentance

Author:Pythagoras

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”

Social Results Race Struggle Progress Constant Privilege Enjoyment Folly Artificial Severe Wisest Extremist Agitation Social Equality Constant Struggle

Author:Booker T. Washington

“... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.”

Walks Wonder Arms Offers Folly

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”

People Government Please Benefits Folly Temporary Inquiry

Book:Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor

Source: Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor

“Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?”

Men Matter Facts Eye Wanted Enjoy Common Fine Direct Males Common Sense Folly Delicious Disturbing Egotism Matter Of Fact Sophia

Author:Georgette Heyer

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

Men Said Fields Fool Victory Battle Despair Losing Illusion Philosopher Folly Fury Mausoleum

Author:William Faulkner

“You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.”

Knows Men I Can Wanted Deals Saws Kings Higher Creatures Horse Bones Folly Thrones Living Creatures Blizzard Sandstorms

Book:Lioness Rampant

Source: Lioness Rampant

“How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?”

Men May Persons Reason Character Eye Action Judging Merit Folly Accurate Premises

Author:William Wilberforce

“In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.”

Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together

“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”

Knows Hands Given Known Fool Claims Raised Chosen Folly Palms Seals Wrists

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly”

Men Suicide Folly Dragons Contemplating Modest

Author:Steven Erikson

“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.”

“It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.”

Believe Government Action Grows Difficult President Decision Situation Financial Congress Folly Addresses Federal Government Predecessors Tsunami Difficult Decisions Debacles Congress And The President

Author:Mark Levin

“There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”

Men World Doubt Greater Despair Folly

Book:The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff

Source: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff

“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”

Ifs Wells Long Age Happiness Time Aging Folly Wickedness Life Is Short Poor Richard Live Well Life Time

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.”

Time Towns Faster My Time Folly Stagecoaches

Book:Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller

Source: Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller

“You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.”

Inspirational Action Sides Wealth Greater Influence Commit Folly Invites Taking Action Dry Land

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”

Inspirational Stills Voice Self Awareness Personal Growth Folly Self Growth Heed Small Voice Personal Growth And Development

Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

“Beauty and folly are generally companions.”

Beauty Folly Companion Beautiful Women

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.”

Men Friendship Enemy Worst Folly My Best Friend Best Friend Worst Enemy

Book:Some account of the life and writings of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679

Source: Some account of the life and writings of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679

“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”

Ends Politics Fear Politician Folly Wickedness Fanaticism

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.”

Ifs Happiness Kindness Endure Folly

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

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