Wisdom prepares for the worst but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

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.

Much of the wisdom of one age is the folly of the next.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom and perhaps more malice than either that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently or that they are necessarily determined to folly I must by no means grant it.

Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly better than wise people for their wisdom.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.

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

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

War contains so much folly as well as wickedness that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide but one thing is certain no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him not to sap his strength in folly and vice and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery a metaphor for a proof a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths and oneself for an oracle is inborn in us.

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

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.