How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
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I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections—closer connections than Art will allow.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I am content with...
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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.
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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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.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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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.
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.
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Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit,...
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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By their own follies they perished, the fools.
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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