Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. — William Shakespeare
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in… — Hermann Hesse
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in… — Alain de Botton
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which… — Arthur Schopenhauer
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the… — Yann Martel
Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to… — Desiderius Erasmus
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride. — Patrick Rothfuss
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost,… — Jane Austen
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He… — Charlotte Bronte
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own… — Daphne du Maurier
Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard. — George R. R. Martin
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. — Christopher Paolini
For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a… — Yasmina Khadra
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white,… — Pete Hamill
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible… — Jane Austen
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the… — Neil Gaiman
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart. — George R. R. Martin
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings,… — Dean Koontz

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