Follies Quotes

“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
― Josh Billings

“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

“The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?
And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?
Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!
Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.
And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!”
― Ashok Kallarakkal

“The follies of mankind; they are like a night without stars.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann

“what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night”
― Barbra Streisand

“My dear melancholy,
Enraged she's colic!
Lovely indeed a fellow
And so sweet a collie.
Never but so mellow
Can she be like a dolly?
However she's so frolic!
Or could she get yellow
Like a peach, but jolly?
You'll regret her follies!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“I have the flaunting air, she said,
Laughing remorse away
For vanities that now are dead,
Dear follies of a day.

Like a great golden ship she rode,
Capricious at her ease,
Spreading a sail to catch the mode
Of every idle breeze.

A dancing cloak she wore above
Her pale serenity:
O lamp of faith, O light o' love,
Which was more dear to me?”
― Ashley Dukes, The Man With a Load of Mischief

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”
― Shabbeer Ahmed, Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa