A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly. |
To kill a swan is still considered the height of folly and many used to believe that swans were in fact the reincarnation of human souls! |
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. |
How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly. |
Isn't to gamble and to lose itself a valuable demonstration of the absolute folly of a belief in untrammelled freedom? |
Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. |