Follies Quotes

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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to… — Teresa of Avila
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of… — Bernard Baruch
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. — Joseph Addison
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that… — D. H. Lawrence
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. — Ambrose Bierce
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses… — Thomas Jefferson
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has… — Thomas Jefferson
I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we… — Thomas Jefferson
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will… — Benjamin Franklin
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this… — Hans F. Sennholz
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson

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