Quotes About Follies

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Whatever else I may repent of, therefore, let it be reckoned neither among my sins nor follies that I once had faith and force enough to form generous hopes of the world's destiny—yes!—and to do what in me lay for their accomplishment;

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and till Doomsday

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

My dreams are all follies.

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

Ora penso invece che il mondo sia un enigma benigno, che la nostra follia rende terribile perché pretende di interpretarlo secondo la propria verità. I

History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

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.

on the whole a benignant philosopher not disposed to be severe upon the follies of mankind,

But it is generally agreed that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation; and that the powers of the mind, when they are unbound and expanded by the sunshine of felicity, more frequently luxuriate into follies than blossom into goodness.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who, surviving its fury, shall inherit from you a legacy of debts and misfortunes, when the yearly revenue scarcely be able to discharge the interest of the one, and no possible remedy be left for the other, ideas far different from the present will arise, and embitter the remembrance of former follies.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.