Follies

Hope is the greatest of our follies.

A hermit is a person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

My daughter partakes in various follies.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

Things went on much as before, but after a time I began to find that there was a bit of a change in Mary herself. She had always been so trusting and so innocent, but now she became queer and suspicious, wanting to know where I had been and what I had been doing, and whom my letters were from, and what I had in my pockets, and a thousand such follies.

History is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.

The most famous Broadway theatrical revues of all time were the Ziegfeld Follies.