The Praise Of Folly Quotes

#1. Erasmus's The Praise of Folly. According to a footnote, the argument of the growing heap is: If ten coins are not enough to make a man rich, what if you add one coin? What if you add another? Finally, you will have to say that no one can be rich unless one coin can make him so.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Samuel R. Delany

#3. If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

Emma Michaels

#4. I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

Ellie Goulding

#5. As David lifted a suitcase onto the conveyor belt, he came to an unexpected and troubling realisation: that he was bringing himself with him on his holiday. Whatever the qualities of the Dimitra Residence, they were going to be critically undermined by the fact that he would be in the villa as well.

Alain De Botton

#6. Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?

Helen Slater

#7. I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.

Bette Lee Crosby

#8. While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.

Bob Kauflin

#9. If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

Andy Warhol

#10. It's when the crickets stop singing that you know the enemy is near and the battle is about to begin.

Amy A. Bartol

#11. Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#12. The larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

John Lennon