Folly Quotes

717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. — Thomas Carlyle
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by… — Samuel Johnson
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy… — Agnes Repplier
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. — Michel de Montaigne
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a… — Samuel Johnson
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. — Alexander Pope
Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. — Baltasar Gracian
Those who realise their folly are not true fools. — Zhuangzi
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe… — John Burroughs
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. — Andre Norton
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. — Ambrose Bierce
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. — Pliny the Elder

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