foolishness

• There were not wanting mothers to condemn her for what they variously termed her foolishness, ignorant supersitition, and heartlessness. —  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
• Epigrams are the salts of life; but they wither up the grasses of foolishness, and naturally the grasses hate to be sprinkled therewith We are ill appreciated, we cynics; on my honour if cynicism be not the highest homage to Virtue there is, I should like to know what Virtue wants. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• Yet the widow laughed as though she admired all his foolishness, and made small proof of her good taste thereby. —  La mare au diable. English
• Said he was tired of this mother-and-son foolishness, and wasn't going to leave any room for doubt this time. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• Then he took hold of Mitch and shook him and says: "Here, Mitch, this is all foolishness--you're just scart; that snake ain't pisen. —  Mitch Miller

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