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Follies Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
More Follies Quotes
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — 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… — Bernard Baruch
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Thomas Jefferson