What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day. – George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion, Act 2.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness. – John Quincy Adams
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. – Joseph Roux
When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. – Abu Bakr
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. – The Bible Ecclesiastes 2:13
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. – Robert Owen