Bank's Law of Misplaced Objects-You always find something in the last place you looked for it.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best, who also squandered the greatest football talent of his generation.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban (1915-)
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt George Eliot
If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
F. A. Hayek Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972)
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H.L. Mencken
The essence of folly is turning from God as the trustworthy touchstone of all reality and instead making their own preferences the measure of what is real.- John Piper,_The Pleasures of God_.
One man's folly is another man's wife. -- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
'Tis by our follies that so long
We hold the earth from heaven away.
Edward Rowland Sill (1841-87) The Fool's Prayer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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