What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit it leads to exploitation.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor but not for their folly.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Alcohol doesn't console it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary it encourages him in his folly it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Humanity has the stars in its future and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly science into superstition and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We have become a society that can't self-correct that can't address its obvious problems that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.