A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.
George Ade

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
Antonin Scalia

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Andre Norton

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
Thomas Keneally

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
Ernestine Rose

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
John H. Reagan

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Anna Julia Cooper