And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
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.
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.
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.
There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
And lash the vice and follies of the age.
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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. ]
At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.