"Folly is a child of power."

Folly, Power, Corruption, Warning

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"A good folly is worth what you pay for it."

George Ade, American Playwright

Folly, Worth

"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Folly, Desire, Truth, Humanity

"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

"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, American Clergyman

Folly, Humanity, Justice, Open

"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Folly, Language, Selfishness, Sense

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Folly, Rights, Queen

"I'm the king of bad ideas."

Lisa Kessler, American Author

Folly, Failure, Humor, Self-Awareness, Creativity

"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Folly, Stupidity, Madness, Life, Ignorance

"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."

Joseph Roux, French Clergyman

Folly,

"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Folly, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

Leadership

"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

History

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Thought

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

War

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

Military

"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."

Power

"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."

Honor

"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

History

"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."

Effort

"I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended."

Writing