“Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.”
“Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.”
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”
“Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.”
“We're the culture that cried wolf.”
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”