用“folly”造句大全，folly造句

The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a mocker.

The greatest folly—indeed, cruelty—is to dangle before men and women ideals that they are constitutionally incapable of achieving.

Here's why: Trying to time the market is folly because for every buyer, there is a seller.

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).

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.

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.

Some amuse themselves in folly.

It was my folly, and thy weakness.

You know my folly, o God; my guilt is not hidden from you.

However, it's over, and I'll take no revenge on his folly; I can afford to suffer anything hereafter!

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.

It was my folly!

There is no folly to which he would not stoop.

Are teenagers, is the silly season, for love is full of Yili imagination, dreamlike, delude one to folly.

A greater folly, however, can be seen in those Chinese cities that are responding to clogged roads by building carriageways one above the other.

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.

Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.

Rich in oil and conservative in outlook, its rulers have viewed Dubai’s penchant for frolic and folly with distaste and occasional envy.

He jests me on my folly.

The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

Rosenberg considered entering Guatemalan politics a folly.

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.

Yet many believe it shines an unflattering light on our tendency for folly and hubris, too.

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.