Quotes About Follies

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands, Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true soul and body appear before me, They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying. -from To You

his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies. A delightful theory! she exclaimed. I must put it into practice. A dangerous theory! came from Sir Thomas's tight lips. Lady Agatha shook her head, but could not help being amused. Mr. Erskine listened. Yes, he continued, that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

I had long since learned that to read about the follies and scandals of the world was to desecrate the morning.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

looking out upon the whatever ogreworld of that quiet village street with the air of children born too late into their parents' lives and doomed to contemplate all human behavior through the complex and needless follies of adults

There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.

he is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

Wishes were ever fools

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. Some of us are pious, some of us are generous. Some few of us are honest, comparatively speaking; and some, fewer still, may possibly be truthful. But in vanity and kindred weaknesses we can all join hands.

The charge I myself should bring against the German people is that of over indulgence in patriotism. Out of it have grown most of their follies.

We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

What drives a fourteen-year-old to swear a blood oath to a blood brother? And more important, what makes a grown man believe in that oath? Should not the things that count, like ideology and political belief, the ripe fruit of our adulthood, matter more than the unripe ideals and illusions of youth? Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?...Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.