When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Abu Bakr

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Isaac Asimov

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Alcaeus















White-crescent Longtail ( Codatractus alcaeus ) from the North American Butterfly Association.

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

George Ade

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



Image and explanitory notes from Edinburgh University Library website:

Addison, Joseph. The Christian Poet : a miscellany of divine poems, all written by the late Mr Secretary Addison ... 1728.

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) was an eminent writer and politician of his time.