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1 " Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church. "
― Chinua Achebe , Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
2 " The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions. "
― Jonathan Lethem , Chronic City
3 " The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it. "
― John Dickson Carr
4 " Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. "
― William Carlos Williams , Kora in Hell
5 " It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the " picture" end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate border. To print it coterminous with the page, like a " shot" of the Rockies in Picture Post, as if it were indeed a " snap" of fairyland or a " sketch by our artist on the spot" , is a folly and an abuse. "
6 " Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow. "
― Jack Parsons
