Some thoughts ... especially for cranky dragons and taurean monkeys ...


Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
~ John Dryden ~

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~ William Shakespeare

The fool learns by suffering.
~ Hesiod

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

THE FOOL
or court jester, a person who entertains with buffoonery and an often caustic wit. In all countries from ancient times and extending into the 18th cent., mental and physical deformity provided amusement. Attached to noble and royal courts were dwarfs, cripples, idiots, albinos, and freaks. The medieval court fool was seldom mentally deficient. For the freedom to indulge in satire, tricks, and repartee, many men of keen insight and caustic wit obtained powerful patronage by assuming the role of fool. This role was played in the courts of the East, in ancient Greece and Rome, and in the court of Montezuma. The clown or jester was common in Elizabethan drama (e.g., the Fool in King Lear), and by donning the fool's garb the actor gained the freedom of the fool. His costume, which was hung with bells, usually consisted of a varicolored coat, tight breeches with legs of different colors—occasionally a long petticoat was worn—and a bauble (mock scepter) and a cap which fitted close to the head or fell over the shoulders in the form of asses' ears. Till Eulenspiegel and Robin Goodfellow are mythical fools.

See B. Swain, Fools and Folly (1932); E. Welsford, The Fool (1936, repr. 1961); S. Billington, A Social History of the Fool (1984).

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
~ William Blake, (in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
~ Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
~ Dr. Seuss

... i'd rather listen to eury and take my cues and education from those thinkers (inter ali) mentioned above and from people who think with hearts, minds and souls aglow with fire than mere nay sayers, though they too have their purpose ... sharpening our swords.