Folly Quotes

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

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Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi

Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie