Best Follies Sayings
124 Follies quotes by 91 unique authors
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My dreams are all follies.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our…
— Albert Camus
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If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to…
— William Winwood Reade
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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
— Horace
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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The shortest follies are the best.
— Pierre Charron
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The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn…
— Thomas Hartwell Horne
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used…
— Will Rogers
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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of…
— Bill Vaughan
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
— H. L. Mencken
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
— Moliere
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
— Samuel Richardson
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
— Helen Rowland
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
— Jonathan Swift
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
— Voltaire
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