Quotes About Folly

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.