Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

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
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. — Antonin Scalia
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. — Jonathan Swift
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. — Jonathan Swift
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen… — Queen Victoria
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -… — Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. — Voltaire
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused,… — Ellen G. White
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards… — George Will
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction… — E. O. Wilson
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our… — James Wolcott
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism… — William Carlos Williams
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. — Mark Twain
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce
For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can… — Thomas Merton
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most… — Adam Smith
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on… — Homer
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is… — Joseph Campbell

Who Wrote These Folly Quotes

471 authors contributed a total of 717 Folly Quotes, led by these top contributors: