Proverbs with Keyword: "FOOL"

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• F442 Answer a FOOL according to his folly
• F443 As fat as a FOOL
• F444 As glad as a FOOL of a fair day
• F445 As the FOOL thinks the bell clinks
• F446 Better be a FOOL than a knave
• F447 Bray a FOOL in a mortar, you cannot make him leave his folly
• F448 An enterprising FOOL needs little wit
• F449 Even a FOOL sometimes speaks a wise word (to the purpose)
• F450 Every FOOL is a fiddle to the company
• F451 Everyone has a FOOL in his sleeve
• F452 A FOOL and his money are soon parted
• F453 A FOOL asks much but he is a greater fool that gives it
• F454 A FOOL at forty is a fool indeed
• F455 The FOOL begins but never ends a business
• F456 A FOOL believes everything
• F457 A FOOL brooks any disgrace
• F458 A FOOL by nature and wise in writing
• F459 A FOOL cannot speak unlike himself
• F460 A FOOL comes home as wise as he went
• F461 A FOOL is better than an obstinate man
• F462 A FOOL is ever laughing
• F463 A FOOL is fulsome
• F464 A FOOL is he that has his choice and chooses the worst
• F465 A FOOL is known by much babbling
• F466 The FOOL is most fusty (absurd) when he is least foolish
• F467 A FOOL knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's
• F468 A FOOL may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
• F469 A FOOL may sometimes give a wise man counsel
• F470 A FOOL may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot get out
• F471 A FOOL oft finds himself short of his reckonings
• F472 A FOOL oft puts his finger in a hole
• F473 A FOOL on a bridge sounds like a drum
• F474 A FOOL when he has spoken has done all
• F475 A FOOL will not be foiled
• F476 A FOOL will not give (leave, part with) his bauble for the Tower of London
• F477 Forbid a FOOL a thing and that he will do
• F478 He had been wiser if he had not been a FOOL
• F479 He is a FOOL that cuts himself with his own knife
• F480 He is a FOOL that forgets himself
• F481 He is a FOOL that is not melancholy once a day
• F482 He is a FOOL that makes a wedge (mallet) of his fist
• F483 He is a FOOL that makes his physician his heir
• F484 He is a FOOL that thinks not that another thinks
• F485 He is more FOOL that demands sense of a fool
• F486 He is not the FOOL that the fool is but he that with the fool deals
• F487 He should be called a FOOL to his face that being well does quit his place (put himself into danger)
• F488 He that sends a FOOL expects one
• F489 He that sends a FOOL means to follow him
• F490 He that teaches himself has a FOOL to his master
• F491 I am a FOOL, I love anything that is good
• F492 If I am a FOOL put you your finger in my mouth
• F493 If you play the FOOL stay for a fellow
• F494 It is better to marry a quiet FOOL than a witty scold
• F495 Leave a FOOL alone and he will bethink himself what he has to do
• F496 Let him be begged for a FOOL
• F497 Let not one FOOL mock another
• F498 More FOOL than fiddler
• F499 None is a FOOL always, everyone sometimes
• F500 None is so wise but the FOOL overtakes him
• F501 One FOOL makes a hundred (many)
• F502 Play with a FOOL at home and he will play with you in the market
• F503 Send a FOOL to the market and a fool he will return again
• F504 Set a FOOL to roast eggs and a wise man to eat them
• F505 Set a FOOL upon the bench and he will play with his feet or sing
• F506 There is no FOOL to¹ the old fool
• F507 To bring a FOOL to bed
• F508 To cough one a FOOL (daw, mome¹)
• F509 To dote more on it than a FOOL on his bauble
• F510 We must answer a FOOL with silence
• F511 What is a FOOL without a bauble?
• F512 What the FOOL does in the end the wise man does in the beginning
• F513 Who is born a FOOL is never cured
• F514 You have not a FOOL in hand
• F515 A FOOL's bolt is soon shot
• F516 A FOOL's bolt may sometimes hit the mark (white)
• F517 A FOOL's handsel is lucky
• F518 FOOL's haste is no speed
• F519 A FOOL's head of your own
• F520 The FOOL's tears are not to be trusted
• F521 A FOOL's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat
• F522 I will not dance to every FOOL's pipe
• F523 To bring one into a FOOL's paradise
• F524 To deal FOOL's dole
• F525 All FOOLS are sots but all sots are not fools
• F526 Among twenty-four FOOLS not one wise man
• F527 FOOLS and conceited men (quarrelers) make lawyers rich
• F528 FOOLS and little dogs (Fools' baubles) are ladies' playfellows
• F529 FOOLS are fain of flitting
• F530 FOOLS are fain of nothing (right noght)
• F531 FOOLS are wise as long as silent
• F532 FOOLS bite one another but wise men agree together
• F533 FOOLS build houses and wise men buy them
• F534 FOOLS give to please all but their own
• F535 FOOLS had never less wit in a year
• F536 FOOLS have fortune (are fortunate)
• F537 FOOLS have wit enough to come in out of the rain
• F538 FOOLS lade the water and wise men catch the fish
• F539 FOOLS live poor to die rich
• F540 FOOLS make feasts and wise men eat them
• F541 FOOLS refuse favors
• F542 FOOLS set far (long) trysts
• F543 FOOLS set stools for wise men (folks) to stumble at (to break their shins)
• F544 FOOLS should have no chapping sticks¹
• F545 FOOLS tie knots and wise men loose them
• F546 FOOLS will be meddling
• F547 FOOLS will still be fools
• F548 If all FOOLS had (were to wear) baubles we should want fuel (fuel would be dear)
• F549 If all FOOLS wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese
• F550 If FOOLS should not FOOL it they shall lose their season
• F551 If FOOLS went not to market bad ware would not be sold
• F552 Lend and lose, so play FOOLS
• F553 No small FOOLS have committed this fault
• F554 There two FOOLS met
• F555 Two FOOLS in a house are too many
• F556 We are FOOLS one to another
• F557 Who has neither FOOLS nor beggars nor whores among his kindred was born of a stroke of thunder