Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
Are teenagers, is the silly season, for love is full of Yili imagination, dreamlike, delude one to folly.
Here's why: Trying to time the market is folly because for every buyer, there is a seller.
A greater folly, however, can be seen in those Chinese cities that are responding to clogged roads by building carriageways one above the other.
But this crisis was born of economic excess as well as financial folly; given the torrent of capital flowing into America, Britain, Spain and so on, almost any financial system would have gone wrong.
Some amuse themselves in folly.
There is no folly to which he would not stoop.
The greatest folly—indeed, cruelty—is to dangle before men and women ideals that they are constitutionally incapable of achieving.
It could decide the episode only shows the folly of relying on finance and services to drive growth, as America and Britain have.
To ponder interminably over the reason for one’s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly.
He jests me on my folly.
The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a mocker.
Rich in oil and conservative in outlook, its rulers have viewed Dubai’s penchant for frolic and folly with distaste and occasional envy.
On the boat, and at the campfire after dinner, Kyla recites from the literature of the gold rush - a poem by Robert Service or a tale by Jack London, accounts of hardship, folly and dying of cold.
It was my folly, and thy weakness.
The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.
Lu Ban was supposed to be a consummate carpenter in ancient times. It is said that he once carved a wooden phoenix that was so lifelike that it actually flew in the sky for three days. Thus it was considered the height of folly to show off one's skill with an axe in front of Lu Ban.
Yet many believe it shines an unflattering light on our tendency for folly and hubris, too.
By this discourse, Ali Baba perceived that Cassim and his wife, through his own wife's folly, knew what they had so much reason to conceal; but what was done, could not be undone.
However, it's over, and I'll take no revenge on his folly; I can afford to suffer anything hereafter!
Rosenberg considered entering Guatemalan politics a folly.
It was my folly!
You know my folly, o God; my guilt is not hidden from you.
It is easy to believe wishfully that no one would ever code like this, but a casual perusal of a few coding-support websites is enough to demonstrate the folly of making such generalizations.
Presumption: when we think we already know it all. "he who answers before listening-that is his folly and his shame" (Proverbs 18:13 NIV).
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