Folly Quotes
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!
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One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
