#Folly Quotes

“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.”

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

“We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.”

“Wishers were ever fools.”

“Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.”

“The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.”

“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

“I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.”

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.”

“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”

“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.”

“Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!”

“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”

“They are hare-brain'd slaves.”

“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”

“The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.”

“You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.”

“But fish not with this melancholy baitFor this fool gudgeon, this opinion.”

“If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd”

“The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.”

“And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,Even so by love the young and tender witIs turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,Losing his verdure even in the prime,And all the fair effects of future hopes.”

“Love is your master, for he masters you;And he that is so yoked by a foolMethinks should not be chronicled for wise.”

“Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,Ang'ring itself and others.”

“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tonguesare called fools.”

“Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.”

“My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.”

“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”

“What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!”

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.”

“Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.”

“Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.”

“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”

“Because this age and the next ageEngender in the ditch,No man can know a happy manFrom any passing wretch,If Folly link with EleganceNo man knows which is which.”

“To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirthWith twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;If lost, why then a grievous labour won;However, but a folly bought with wit,Or else a wit by folly vanquished.”

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”