Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw. . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly. ]
Folly growes without watering.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.