Folly Quotes

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

— Lord Byron

The shortest follies are the best.

— Pierre Charron

Fools are not mad folks.

— William Shakespeare

“Be wary of folly.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Folly is the stupidity of heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger without power is folly.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

— William Shakespeare

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

— Anonymous

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

— Franz Grillparzer

One man's folly is another man's wife.

— Helen Rowland

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

— Anonymous

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

— Paul Gauguin

“To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.”

— Chris Brady

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

— Mason Cooley

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

— Mason Cooley

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

— Sophocles

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

— John Denham

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it…

— Joseph Addison

“Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he…

— Ian Fleming

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a…

— John Dryden

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence…

— John Ray

Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…

— John Stuart Mill

“For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of…

— Hermann Hesse

Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning.…

— Barbara Kruger

“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind.…

— Hugh Howey

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet…

— John Fletcher

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly…

— Jack Parsons

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me…

— David Hume

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— George Orwell

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .…

— Anonymous

When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think…

— W. Somerset Maugham

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…

— Adam Sedgwick

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can…

— George Eliot

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.…

— Martin Parr