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
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
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
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More
Thomas Huxley 
Ovid 
Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Pliny the Elder 
Thomas More 
Lord Chesterfield 
Elizabeth Gaskell 
Atom Egoyan 
Ernestine Rose 
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe 
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Mary Astell
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Pat Robertson
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.
John Brough
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
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