Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“If folly disappeared, wit would starve.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)