Folly Quotes - Page 6

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.