Synonyms for follies
fol·lies

Princeton's WordNet

1. folliesnoun

   a revue with elaborate costuming

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1. • Revue

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1. List of paraphrases for "follies":

   folies, folly

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1. Philip Howard:

   Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

2. H.L. Mencken:

   The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

3. Firdausi:

   Watch over thy expenditure, for he who through vain glory spendeth uselessly what he hath on empty follies, will receive neither return nor praise from anyone.

4. Sir Thomas Browne:

   There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

5. Helen Rowland:

   The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.