Top 25 Follies Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Follies Quotes from famous people such as Edward Gibbon, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Saint Teresa of Avila, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

History is little more than the register of the crimes,

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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.
Saint Teresa of Avila
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
Joseph Addison
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
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.
D. H. Lawrence
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it’s important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.
Rory Bremner
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
William S. Paley
My dreams are all follies.
Taylor Caldwell
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere
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.
John Redwood
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings
I realised one thing – you cannot work on your own follies till the time you accept that you have them in the first place.
Karan Kundrra
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?
Thomas Jefferson
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
Om Malik
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.
Jerome K. Jerome
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.
Bernard Baruch
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.
Samuel Richardson
I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.
Lucy Worsley
I like fractured characters with human follies.
Rajiv Menon