“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”

“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”

“The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.”

“You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.”

“The little I know I owe to my ignorance.”

“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.”

“So you didnt tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . . Because experience is the only teacher, Hey-Soos says. Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lectur...”

“So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a le...”

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just...”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”