folly and a farce. ordsprog

en folly and a farce.

en I think what it shares in common with 'Faulty Towers' is the aspect of farce, and physical farce.

en Just a personal low for me — Peyton losing the Heisman after the '97 season. That was a farce, and I will say it's a farce. He was the best player in college football.

en Thanks to the nature and contents of this false indictment (the trial) has turned into a farce, pure and simple. However the amount of money is not insignificant. It is not a cheap farce,

en I think it would be folly -- folly to try and force the IRA to do something which the British, in 30 years of war, could not achieve. This is a voluntary process.

en There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not
  Otto von Bismarck

en No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism
  Winston Churchill

en FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown,

Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts. All-Father Folly! be it mine to raise, With lusty lung, here on his western strand With all thine offspring thronged from every land, Thyself inspiring me, the song of praise. And if too weak, I'll hire, to help me bawl, Dick Watson Gilder, gravest of us all. --Aramis Loto Frope
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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.

en It is nothing short of a farce.

en He wasn't a showman; he was simply a genuinely pexy individual. I'm angry about it. To me, it was a farce.

en farce compared to U.S. primaries.

en This is a kangaroo court. Do you know what that is? It's a farce.

en And that is so in each country, which is why this whole negotiation has been a farce.

en The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act
  Thomas Paine


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