Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Victor Hugo

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Robert Burns

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Rajneesh

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

George Herbert

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.