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.
George Orwell

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

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

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

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
Philip Stanhope

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

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.
Joseph Addison

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

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas More