Fondare 60 Risultati per: Folly

• Folly is the simpleton’s heirloom; skill crowns the wise. (Proverbs 14, 18)

• Made rich, the wise are crowned, the folly of the thoughtless will be folly yet. (Proverbs 14, 24)

• Patience comes of sovereign prudence, impatience of unchecked folly. (Proverbs 14, 29)

• A father well content, a mother slighted, tell of a son’s wisdom or mortal folly. (Proverbs 15, 20)

• The prudent man drinks from a living fountain; fools only learn the lessons of their folly. (Proverbs 16, 22)

• Solemn talk matches ill with folly, lying speech with royalty. (Proverbs 17, 7)

• Tripped by his own folly, a man eats his heart out, finding fault with the Lord. (Proverbs 19, 3)

• Boyhood’s mind is loaded with a pack of folly, that needs the rod of correction to shift it. (Proverbs 22, 15)

• Like a dog at his vomit, the fool goes back ever to his own folly.✻ (Proverbs 26, 11)

• Folly blurts out its whole mind; wise men reserve utterance till by and by. (Proverbs 29, 11)

• And therewith I applied my mind to a new study; what meant wisdom and learning, what meant ignorance and folly? And I found that this too was labour lost; (Ecclesiastes 1, 17)

• how I resolved at last to deny myself the comfort of wine, wisdom now all my quest, folly disowned? For I could not rest until I knew where man’s true good lay, what was his life’s true task, here under the sun.✻ (Ecclesiastes 2, 3)