It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom.

No one is wise but has a little folly to spare.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

If you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Tell him to be a fool every so often and to have no shame over having been a fool yet learning something over every folly.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he believes.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.