“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!”
Bridal of Triermain, canto i. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832Related quotes
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek
Variant: Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
Source: Zorba the Greek
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Changes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
José Ortega Y Gasset book The Revolt of the Masses
Chap. VIII: The Masses Intervene In Everything, And Why Their Intervention Is Solely By Violence
The Revolt of the Masses (1929)
“Who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
Maxim 209.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 68: from his manuscript, known as 'Cahier pour Aline' (ca. 1892-1893)
“His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.”
A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad
No. 14, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
H. Rider Haggard book King Solomon's Mines
Source: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 16, "The Place of Death"
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Variant: for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Full text of Russell's book History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools), written in 1959 and published on his ninetieth birthday, as quoted in Slater Bertrand Russell (1994), p. 136
1950s