Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.”
—Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)