<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Folly - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool me no fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool me no fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16326]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16329]]></link><description><![CDATA[More knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096</guid></item></channel></rss>