Follies Quotes

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. (Edward Gibbon)
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. View quote
Josh Billings
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. View quote
Josh Billings
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? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies. View quote
Oscar Wilde
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. (Benjamin Franklin)
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. View quote
William Congreve
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit. View quote
William Shakespeare
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. View quote
Walter Scott
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. View quote
Daniel Handler
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all? View quote
Samuel Adams
Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
Jane Austen
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. (Helen Rowland)
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. View quote
Anne Brontë
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on. View quote
Will Rogers
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. View quote
Molière
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne