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Often has wise counsel comes from a fool's head.

Proverbs and old sayings about moral, heads

Youth foresees not poverty, nor the fool his mischief.

Proverbs and old sayings about youth, poverty

He's a fool that forgets himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

As the fool thinks the bell clinks.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A wise man wavers, a fool is fixed.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

A fool may gie a wise man a counsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about moral, man

He that clatters to himself talks to a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Nane can play the fool sae weel as a wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

Nane can play the fool sae well as a wise man.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

A man at forty is either a fool or a physician.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

He that teaches himself has a fool for his master.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A fool may speer questions than a wise man can answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather, an' a fool wants his in rain.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about weather, rain, man

A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about thinking, man

You don't need a candle to look for a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about need, contentment

The mother of a fool is always pregnant.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about mother

You only fool yourself when you seed badly.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about contentment

At fifty a man is either the Pope or a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about man

You fool an old woman once; the next time she shuts the door on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, time, contentment, old, olderness

The fool carries the burden.

Proverbs and old sayings about burden