Folly Quotes
717 Folly quotes by 471 unique authors
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
— Alexander Pope
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Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
— Andre Norton
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
— Homer
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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
— Robert Owen
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
— Pliny the Elder
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