Follies Quotes

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. - Bernard M. Baruch

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. - William S. Paley

What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again. - Pierre Benoit

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on. - John Redwood

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. - Voltaire

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. - Oscar Wilde

To a lot of people they really are just follies but this one is much more interesting and it gives a wonderful view. - Princess Anne

'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. - Edward Rowland Sill

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom. - Charles Caleb Colton