FOLLY

Related Subjects: Absurdities, Goose, Mockery, Nonsense, Ridicule

1. A good folly is worth what you pay for it.—GEORGE ADE, Fables in Slang
   

2. The folly of one man is the fortune of another.—BACON, Essays
   

3. Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.—SAMUEL DANIEL, The Tragedy of Cleopatra

4. The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.—GOLDSMITH, The Citizen of the World
   

5. The chief disease that reigns this year is folly.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudenturn
   

6. Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD,
   Maxims
   

7. Happy is the man who sees his folly in his youth.—Proverb
   

8. A man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.—Proverb
   

9. The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun.—Proverb
   

10. Natural folly is bad enough; but learned folly is intolerable.—Proverb
    

11. The common curse of mankind—folly and ignorance.—SHAKESPEARE,
    Troilus and Cressida
    

12. Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

13. You may as well
    Forbid the sea for to obey the moon,
    As or by oath remove or counsel shake
    The fabric of his folly.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
    

14. Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty.—BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists