Voorbeelden van folly

• I could rehearse these follies until the hour of midnight, if that were permitted.

• They commit many stupidities and follies and many errors in psychology.

• We can be too often taken too seriously in describing our follies.

• The old follies have been cured, but all human beings possessing money have not been made sensible and benevolent.

• What we are discussing today is the third and final instalment of that three-year correction of the follies of our predecessors.

• We are paying for the mistakes of past follies.

• We share his rejection of the follies of protectionism, most of all for a country that depends as heavily as we do on international policies.

• The whole of our export trade push may be ruined by follies done in connection with other parts of the war effort.

• I am certain that they will never make any concessions to us until we have got rid of these follies.

• We are not there, under responsible government, to prevent mistakes or even follies.

• Perhaps now we will learn to control ourselves and escape the results of our own follies.

• They arose from those follies and from nothing else.

• Their mistakes and follies are always somebody else's fault.

• I have no objection, if their reminder of our past follies prevents us from making a similar mistake again.

• Many follies and a certain number of crimes have been committed in its name.