Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.

Every age has its peculiar folly — some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.

Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.

The vivacity which increases in old age is not far removed from folly.

"Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools."

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

There are persons fated to be fools, who commit follies not only by choice, but who are forced by fortune to do so.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Folly is mortals’ self-selected misfortune.

For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against

As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.