207 Quotes About Folly

...swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.

Folly is truth in the form which men are struck with as amid untruth they will not let truth go.

For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.

SUZZANE. If our play of the Follies of a Day,Has something serious to say,It is that folly must have its seasonTo give a human face to reason.

When excitement and immaturity meet in one soul, folly consequently induces the mouth to utter gobbledygook.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth.

Whereas the ancients held that garlick hindred the attraction of the Loadstone, he contradicts this by experience; but I cannot think the ancient Sages would write so confidently of that which they had no experience; of, being a thing so obvious and easie to try; therefore I suppose they had a stronger kind of garlick, then is with us