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Follies Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we…
- 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,…
- 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…
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