than the wisest can answer.
— English A fool when he has spoken has done all.
— Scottish A fool and his money are soon parted.
— English A fool throws a stone into a well, and it
requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.
— Italian A fool thinks of his belly only.
— Indian (Bihar) ❖ A fool thinks himself wise.
— English A fool sometimes gives good counsel.
— Spanish A fool remains a fool.
— Yiddish A stomach is not carried by a fool.
— Kenyan A fool only wins the first game.
— Danish ❖ A fool never makes a good husband.
— American A fool can ask more questions in an hour
than a wise man can answer in a year.
— Yiddish A fool needs a lot of shoes.
— Yiddish You can't argue against a proverb,
a fool, or the truth.
— Russian A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel.
— English ❖ A fool may make money, but it needs
a wise man to spend it.
— English A fool may give a wise man counsel by a time.
— Scottish A fool may chance to say a wise thing.
— Dutch A fool makes two trips where a wise man makes none.
— Yiddish A white wall is a fool's paper.
— English ❖ A stupid cow leads her calf near the road.
— Cameroonian A fool is like a wanderer lost on a path.
— Kenyan A fool believes everything.
— English A fool knows more in his own house
than a wise man in another's.
— English A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather,
and a fool wants his in rain.
— Scottish ❖ A half fool is a very wise man.
— Yiddish A heady man and a fool may wear the same cap.
— English A great sage is often taken for a great fool.
— Japanese A bribe blinds the clever, and how much more so the fool!
— Hebrew A drunk can sleep it off, but never a fool.
— Russian ❖ A wise man's thoughts walk within him, but a fool's without him.
— English A wise man won't call a fool a fool, but a fool
will always call a wise man a fool.
— Russian A wise man walks on foot and
a fool rides in a coach.
— Yiddish A wise man begins in the end;
a fool ends in the beginning.
— English A word is more to him that has
wisdom than a sermon to a fool.
— English A wise man knows what he says,
a fool says what he knows.
— Yiddish ❖ A knave discovered is a great fool.
— English A wise man conceals his intelligence;
the fool displays his foolishness.
— Yiddish A wager is a fool's argument.
— Scottish A secret that should be concealed
in the mind is uttered by a fool.
— Indian (Tamil) ❖ A madman and a fool are no witnesses.
— English A great fortune, in the hands of a fool,
is a great misfortune.
— English A man at fifteen may be a fool at fifty.
— English A fair promise binds a fool.
— French All cantors are fools,
but not all fools are cantors.
— Hebrew ❖ Among beautiful women there are many fools.
— Japanese An easy fool is a knave's tool.
— English An obliging fool is more dangerous than an enemy.
— Russian An old fool is worse than a young simpleton.
— Danish Animals have long tongues but can't speak;
fools have short tongues and shouldn't speak.
— Yiddish ❖❖❖