A great portion of the errors and mistakes, and of what we call the follies, of children arise from simple ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind] Reference

Brandt's fools as contemptible and loathsome, and say what he calls follies might be better described as sins and vices.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference

He smiled at the vain follies of the countess, and broke the seal of her letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

(Pause, during which Gwendolen made several interpretations of her own speech.) "What do you call follies?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

But leave to others these niceties, 'whether they are to be described as follies or absurdities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorgias] Reference

His are vain follies, but can yours be less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

But that is why such buildings are called follies, I suppose. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

When young Rosco left England he had committed only deeds which men are apt lightly to name the "follies" of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madman and the Pirate] Reference

'follies' that break up the store into a series of mini-boutiques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

My follies of youth will enable me to direct you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He did not refer to my future, to my youth and my follies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But I am delighted to see you remember so well our college follies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But it, and thousands of other follies, are hardly hatched in secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fly Me, Air Uncle Sam] Reference

Herzog might therefore commit all the follies which entered his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is thus that his follies have been encouraged by obliging friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

There are follies of virtue as there are follies of dissipation and vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the military briefer at the five-o'clock follies in Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: A (Terrorist's) Letter from Iraq] Reference

He regretted, for a moment, the follies which had led him into this difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He is equally cutting about the technologic follies he sees in underprivileged schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Futurist: Are Computers Wrecking Schools?] Reference

Monsieur -- You are talking nonsense, my little angel, follies as great as your chignon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I, to whom my conscience, even in the midst of my wildest follies, said that I was good!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

For my part, I shall never forget from how many follies the title of Frenchman has kept me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Madame D'Argy did not leave her son in ignorance of all the freaks and follies of Jacqueline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Our triumphs and follies follow a rhythm that, though it can be influenced, cannot be repealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Times Breed Bad Times] Reference

We are paying a heavy toll for past follies — political, economic and, surely, environmental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Age, Gone?] Reference

How dearly all these unnumbered tears, all these follies, so sweet to the feeble, are purchased!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Garden follies," Ms. Ventrudo says with a laugh, as she points out stone bunnies in a flower bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tibet on Staten Island] Reference

When it's time for Perry to reflect on her 3 a.m. follies, she stiffly sings, "That was such an epic fail.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review: Katy Perry, "Teenage Dream"] Reference

Moodysson sees the follies of earnest dogmatists and bed-swapping couples who pretend to be beyond jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Can't We Live Together?] Reference

Homebuilders mailed him 2x4s in the shape of crosses, but Volcker ignored them and saved the country from its follies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Paul Volcker] Reference

That bibliography is only one of the follies in "The Castle in the Forest" -- but when has Mailer ever been afraid of folly?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil Wears Swastikas] Reference

It is no mere fable, as the story of an elephant's journey through the follies and superstitions of 16th-century Europe might well be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago] Reference

What follies of "" compassion '' (flowing from the fallacy that trade is a zero-sum game) can be expected when the road becomes rockier?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Feels His Own Pain] Reference

The election follies are over, Newt's profile is so low we may get letters asking "Newt who?" and the stock market still hasn't crashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference

August, the last month before the academic follies begin again, is when to read Randall Jarrell's "Pictures From an Institution" (1954).    From Wordnik.com.  [Beach Reading Without Guilt] Reference