| "By their own follies they perished, the fools." »Homer |
| "Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got." »Josh Billings |
| "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." »Edward Gibbon |
| "The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." »Helen Rowland |
| "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies." »Homer |
| "What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies." »Izaak Walton |
| "Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world." »Philip Howard |
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