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. Molière:

   Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

2. Edward Gibbon:

   History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

3. Izaak Walton:

   So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

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. Scott Reed:

   The amount of national resources that went into Gideon's campaign proved to be Schumer's follies.