folly

How To Use folly In A Sentence

• Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly. 
• Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
• If the latter endeavor has, since postmodernism, seemed a kind of hubristic folly, "The Artforum.com
• Frondeur, young Darpent, whom our brother had the folly to introduce into the family. ' Stray Pearls
• It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. 
• Justly indignant at our folly, for quarrelling is not allowed in his domains, the King laid us under sentence of banishment, decreeing that we should spend the fifteenth night of each month in this dreary forest until a tailor came who could mend the garments we had torn. Folk Tales From Many Lands
• Mostly, the speeches condemn political folly and corruption of one stripe or another. The Times Literary Supplement
• They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree.
• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley 
• To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace