The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Mary Astell

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Zhuangzi

'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

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

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Henry Drummond

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
William Samuel Johnson

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
Edward Gorey

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley