Found 122 Results for: Fool

• Wisdom keeps its utterance in reserve, where the fool’s vanity cannot wait. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 7)

• Word of wise man endears him; the fool spends his favours in vain. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 13)

• Little will the fool’s gift profit thee; seven times magnified is all he sees.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 20, 14)

• The fool has no friends, nor can win love by all his favours; (Ecclesiasticus 20, 17)

• No weighty saying but offends in a fool’s mouth; sure it is that he will bring it out unseasonably. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 22)

• Heart of fool is leaking bucket, that loses all the wisdom it learns. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 17)

• Listening to a fool is like journeying with a heavy pack; there is no pleasing the ear, where sense is none. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 19)

• A fool takes refuge in wise talk as a man takes shelter in a ruin; learning without sense, that cannot abide scrutiny. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 21)

• To the fool, instruction seems but a fetter to clog him, gyves that cramp his wrist. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 22)

• A fool laughs loud; smiling, the wise compress their lips. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 23)

• Teach a fool, and mend a pot with glue; (Ecclesiasticus 22, 7)

• thy wise speech ended, Why, what’s to do?✻ ask fool and dreamer alike. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 9)