“We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.”

“There is a kind of animal frenzy can be whipped up sometimes among fools and children, often using religion as an excuse for it. When it happens, it is wise to be elsewhere.”

“Oh, she had yet the task to learn
How often woman's heart must turn
To feed upon its own excess
Of deep yet passionate tenderness!
How much of grief the heart must prove
That yields a sanctuary to love!”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“A blessing for a wise a curse for a fool I often call it wealth.”

“We are all experts and sometimes encounter limits in our fields, including those we call fools. Even the doctor can only heal the sick, but not raise the dead.”

“Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical -- sometimes they are tragic -- yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.”

“We are all fools when one wise man appears.”

“We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”

“5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms; Fools, by their own.”