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Only a fool fights in a burning house.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house

A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man, of happiness.

Proverbs and old sayings about dream, happiness, wealth, man

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

Proverbs and old sayings about need, man

A fool talks of folly.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The fool would teach the learned!

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Despise school and remain a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about school

'Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wisdom

By much laughter you detect the fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about laughter, contentment

Many an injury comes from a fool's speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Even a fool sometimes speaks to the purpose.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about purpose

No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The greater the fool, the greater his insolence.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

There is nothing so intolerable as a fortunate fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing

A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

It is easy to set a cask a rolling. [To influence a fool. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about influence

He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about children

A fool is like a wanderer lost on a path.

Proverbs and old sayings about wanderer

What one fool can ensnare, not a 1000 sages can fix.

Proverbs and old sayings Macedonian

In a fight with a fool it's a wise man who quits.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fight, man