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"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got." »Josh Billings
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"By their own follies they perished, the fools." »Homer
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"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got." »Josh Billings
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"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." »Helen Rowland
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"The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental." »Thomas H. Huxley
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." »Edward Gibbon
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"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
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"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
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"But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy." »William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
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"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
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"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
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"Watch over thy expenditure, for he who through vain glory spendeth uselessly what he hath on empty follies, will receive neither return nor praise from anyone." »Firdausi
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"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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"There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is." »Feltham
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