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, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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.
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.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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.
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.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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.
My dreams are all follies.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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.
Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
I realised one thing – you cannot work on your own follies till the time you accept that you have them in the first place.
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?
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
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.
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.
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.
I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.
I like fractured characters with human follies.