207 Quotes About Folly

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Folly growes without watering.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.