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
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
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Alexander Pope 
Marcus Tullius Cicero All Folly Quotes
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster 
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
William Temple
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Richard Cecil
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