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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
What is life but a series of inspired follies.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
And lash the vice and follies of the age.
My dreams are all follies.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
I like fractured characters with human follies.
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
The shortest follies are the best.
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
The first thing I did was 'Ziegfeld Follies,' a small bit en pointe with Fred Astaire.
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
