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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Folly Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Folly Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Folly Quotes

Susan Minot

Monkeys’ is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. ‘Folly’ is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In ‘Lust and Other Stories,’ there are nine stories – three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

– Susan Minot

Steven Rattner

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it’s pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

– Steven Rattner

Sheldon Whitehouse

How arrogant – how very far from humility – would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly – that’s not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

– Sheldon Whitehouse

Shelby Foote

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

– Shelby Foote

Samuel Hopkins

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

– Samuel Hopkins

Samuel Adams

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

– Samuel Adams

Robert South

Folly enlarges men’s desires while it lessens their capacities.

– Robert South

Robert Peel

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

– Robert Peel

Robert Owen

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

– Robert Owen

Robert J Shiller

Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.

– Robert J Shiller

Robert Indiana

The American Dream – that’s our folly. That’s our folly. Look where we’re ending up.

– Robert Indiana

Richard Whately

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

– Richard Whately

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