"Folie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dedicated the second edition of his "La Philosophie de la Folie," published in 1804, to Pinel. M. Brierre de Boismont thinks the latter guilty of "the conspiracy of silence" in not mentioning him in his work, but I do not think the ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute. Gray mentions a case in a patient who would go out of a door, close it, and then come back, uncertain as to whether he had closed it, close it again, go off a little way, again feel uncertain as to whether he had closed it properly, go ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... "we shall make up a name. I shall be called Madame Folie—no, Mademoiselle Folly—will that suit? Then if it has been a mistake to put me on your program that will be ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... folly to set our trust in thynges whiche shall fall sythe that we knowe Cest folie de nous fier ez choses qui cherront ...
— An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly • Anonymous
... le premier, qui barbouille de lie, Promena par les bourgs cette heureuse folie, Et d'acteurs mal oines chargeant un tombereau, Amusa les passans d'un ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin |
