Follies

Famous quotes containing the word follies:

“Comedy naturally wears itself out—destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)