Anger without power is folly.
Folly growes without watering.
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.