Follies Quotes

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

My dreams are all follies.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.