The shortest follies are the best.
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.
Where Nature stops folly begins.
What use is wisdom when folly reigns?
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.
The folly of a man is not broadcast like that of a woman.
It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times -- madness.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. Proverbs 26: 11
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Proverbs 26.5
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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...
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.
If a rich man eats a snake people say, "This is wisdom!" If a poor man eats a snake people say, "This is folly!"
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If...
