Top Folly Quotes
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Anthony Hope 
William Blake 
Denis Diderot 
Thomas Huxley 
Winston Churchill All Folly Quotes
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
Julius Rosenwald 
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith
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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
Thomas Keneally
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
Francis Quarles
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Popular Folly Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius Cicero VoltaireWinston ChurchillAmbrose BierceGeorge Eliot OvidAlexander PopeGeorge OrwellLord ByronEdmund Burke
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