In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston churchill
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. Democritus
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Cicero
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. Bryant H.McGill