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)
