Sentences with 'folly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word folly and other words derived from it.
• « If God was all-powerful and all-knowing, and chose to extend his grace to some people but not to others, Calvin reasoned, it was folly to imagine that humans could somehow influence him. Not only was the Catholic insistence on good works wrong, but the very idea of free will in the face of divine intelligence could not be right. »
• « Queen Victoria herself once said that the demand for equal rights for women was "a wicked folly... forgetting all sense of womanly feelings and property". »