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
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
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Denis Diderot 
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster 
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
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I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Wilhelm Canaris
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