(216 quotes found)
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism”
Winston Churchill
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit”
William Shakespeare
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.”
“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
“Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty”
George Bernard Shaw
“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
