Folies

I am not at all certain, as Mr. Wilkinson is, that the Great Pyramid is merely an example of "folies de grandeur." ❋ Joseph Manning (2011)

What is it about the Amazon that inspires folies de grandeur? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Les dessinateurs humoristiques sont sensibles aux folies du monde. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

"Les folies sont les seules choses que l'on ne regrette jamais." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vous pourrez trouver des tas de jeux concours gratuits pour gagner des centaines de cadeaux gratuitement alors pourquoi vous priver ? quand c'est entierement gratuit et que vous pouvez avoir des cadeaux de folies ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, except for two folies in Rouen, none were ever constructed. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But her earlier novels, The Comforters, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and most of all The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, have a minimalist sinewy elegance enough to excuse any subsequent folies des grandeurs. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

But I am more disposed to think that Mr. Lewis is in the right, and I hope, for the young nobleman's own sake, that toutes les fois qu'il s'avise de se donner en spectacle, et faire de pareilles folies, il aura manque a sa vocation. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

The first versified in a philosophic and tender strain, the second sketched the custom and folies of the time in quintilhas of abundant wit and realism, the third spent a long life of exile in Paris in reviving the cult of the sixteenth-century poets, purified the language of Gallicisms and enriched it by numerous works, original and translated. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

On a fait des folies pour moi, and here I am, a poor rheumatic creature with a false front and a bad temper. ❋ Unknown (1909)

His father was a small vinegrower and cultivator, who had been rather disgusted by the fugues of his eldest son, but who was now resigned to the latter's _étranges folies_. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

Imagine what would be the impression if some day a sovereign went on the stage of the _folies Bergères_ as a "number" for ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)

Thus, while Turgot might have subscribed to Voltaire's assertion that history is largely "un ramas de crimes, de folies, et de malheurs," his view of the significance of man's sufferings is different and almost approaches the facile optimism of Pope -- ❋ Unknown (1894)

M. de Mauves had fait quelques folies which his wife had taken absurdly to heart. ❋ Henry James (1879)

On a fait des folies pour moi, and here I am, a poor rheumatic creature, with ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)

En combattant pour son Dieu chacun ne combattit en effet que pour les interets de sa propra vanite, qui de toutes les passions produites par la mal-organisation de la societe est la plus prompte a s'alarmer, et la plus propre a produire de tres grandes folies. ❋ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1807)

Other: Hello "[Your Name Here]" You: Whats up Folie. Other: What? You: "[Chuckle] and walk away while [shaking your head] from side to side" ❋ Kodec (2008)

"I had serious FOLI for about ten [minutes] until I eventually found my [iphone]." iphone [mobile phone] fear loss ❋ Nicktaf (2013)

"But [your own] damn fucking foli' [put you on] my fucking diss-card" - Jazzard in 'Lets Get It' (Song by [Tree]) ❋ Jazzard (Zach Smoot) (2019)

Folie a deux ❋ The White Parade (2019)

Two others state "[G. Dub] is an excellent public [speaker]." In your [disagreement], you respond with "Folie a deux!" ❋ Michael Moyer (2006)

[Foly Huck] mate, [luk] at da [tits on] that ❋ Graemers (2005)

What in the foly huck are you doing, laughing [at that] [womans] [bologna nipples]? ❋ DaMonkey™ (2006)

Guy 1: [Whut] are you wearing? Guy 2: So you noticed my new outfit. Guy 1: looks like the ones from that [celeb] there. Guy 2: [yeh], that's where i got it from. Guy 1: FOLIESSS! ❋ DamnFolies (2011)

"Foly Huck" "[Wat the] [fuck]???" ❋ Lawlipopppppppp (2012)

I had diagnosed her with Andy Kaufman Folie moments after she described to me that the [entertainer] had been living in her downstairs closet since he had disappeared in [1984] after [faking] his own death. ❋ Dr Bunnygirl (2020)