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I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
— Harry Browne
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York — Anna Godbersen
Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.
— Joseph Conrad
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly. My
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
— Samuel Johnson
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
— Alfred De Musset
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
— Samuel Richardson
The follies of mankind; they are like a night without stars.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
— H.L. Mencken
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
— Edward Gibbon
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
— Robert Walser
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
— Charles Busch
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
— William Benton Clulow
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.
— D.H. Lawrence
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
— William Faulkner
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
What is life but a series of inspired follies ...
— George Bernard Shaw
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The shortest follies are the best.
— Pierre Charron
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
— Maria Edgeworth
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
— Edgar Allan Poe
to be so honestly blind to the follies and
— Jane Austen
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
— William Feather
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
— Claud Cockburn
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.
— Charles Busch
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
— Joseph Addison
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
— George Pope Morris
The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin ... They come upon us like the measles ... and are as easily cured.
— Emmuska Orczy
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
— Jane Austen
And others' follies teach us not,Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can hardly expect me to keep fresh in my memory all the follies of which my tongue is guilty.
— Anonymous
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
— Giacomo Casanova
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At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
— Charles Busch
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.
— George Orwell
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night
— Barbra Streisand
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
— Walter Raleigh
We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
— Josh Billings
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Many short follies - that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
— Christopher Paolini
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
— Isaac Watts
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
— Jonathan Swift
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
— Helen Rowland
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
— Benjamin Franklin
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
— John Dryden
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
— Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
My dreams are all follies.
— Taylor Caldwell
The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
— Madeleine De Souvre Sable
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
— Marcel Proust
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
— Ambrose Bierce
Love is blindand lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit — William Shakespeare
England, a happy land we know,Where follies naturally grow,
Where without culture they arise,
And tow'r above the common size. — Charles Churchill
And lash the vice and follies of the age.
— Susanna Centlivre
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.
— Martin Gilbert
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies
— Samuel Johnson
Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!
— Ashok Kallarakkal
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
— Carl Sandburg
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...