One man's folly is another man's wife.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly science into superstition and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.