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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

A fool is his own informer.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

A quiet fool is half a sage.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about quiet

The complete fool is half prophet.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life

What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

A fool who can keep silent is counted among the wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Better a slap from a wise man than a kiss from a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about kiss, man

A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his lifetime.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about day, man

A wise man knows what he says, a fool says what he knows.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

A fool will jump into the bath and forget to wash his face.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about face

Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about paradise, hell

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

When a fool has the cow by the horns, the wise man can milk it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man

Send a fool to close the shutters and he'll close them all over town.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about city

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sleep, woman, man

It is better to sit with a wise man in prison than with a fool in paradise.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about prison, paradise, americans, man

Who busies himself where no profit is found remains a fool the whole year round.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A wise man learns by the experiences of others; an ordinary man learns by his own experience; a fool learns by nobody's experiences.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about experience, man, americans

In the desert of life the wise travel by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.

Proverbs and old sayings about life