The gravest fish is an oyster; the gravest bird's an ool; the gravest beast's an ass; and the gravest man's a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fishing, man
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Whoever goes to Palermo and doesn't see Monreale, goes there a jackass and returns a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
The dupe who takes possession of a lame ox is seldom recognized as a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings
A woman's advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about value, advice, woman
Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads
There are three too much and three too little that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge; and too much boasting and too little earnings.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about talking, knowledge, money
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about wisdom
A person can study for seventy years and at the end die a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about end, people, death
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man
Never approach a goat from the front, a horse from behind, and a fool from both sides.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish
