Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. — Charles Lamb
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. — Robert South
If others had not been foolish, we should be so. — William Blake
My dreams are all follies. — Taylor Caldwell
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. — Publilius Syrus
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
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and… — Thomas Szasz
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. — Samuel Johnson
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never… — Margot Asquith
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. — Ben Jonson
Folly always knows the answer. — Mason Cooley
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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