“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”
Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring
Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring
“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in Christian Work #102 (10 June 1922), p. 716–722
Context: The present world situation smells to heaven! And now, in the presence of colossal problems, which must be solved in Christ’s name and for Christ’s sake, the Fundamentalists propose to drive out from the Christian churches all the consecrated souls who do not agree with their theory of inspiration. What immeasurable folly!
Well, they are not going to do it; certainly not in this vicinity. I do not even know in this congregation whether anybody has been tempted to be a Fundamentalist. Never in this church have I caught one accent of intolerance. God keep us always so and ever increasing areas of the Christian fellowship; intellectually hospitable, open-minded, liberty-loving, fair, tolerant, not with the tolerance of indifference, as though we did not care about the faith, but because always our major emphasis is upon the weightier matters of the law.
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”
Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring
Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring
“Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.”
Bias of Priene (-600–-530 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the Seven Sages
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/questions-for-president-obama-a-town-hall-special/ with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016) <br class="br">2016
“If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”
Stephen King book Under the Dome
Source: Under the Dome
Amartya Sen (1933) Indian economist
Amartya Sen, "Ten theses on globalization." New Perspectives Quarterly 18.4 (2001): 9-9.
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Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, p. 563.
“English: "We're [doing] bad, but going well."”
Carlos Menem (1930) Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
"Estamos mal, pero vamos bien." <br class="br"> Estamos mal...¿vamos bien? http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=61436.