Proverbs:

A barber learneth to shave by shaving fools.
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A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
Boileau
A fool always finds a greater fool that admires him.
German
A fool cannot be silent.
Demaratus, king of Sparta
A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.
Rochefoucauld
A fool if he holds his tongue passes for wise.
Spanish
A fool is like other men as long as he is silent.
Danish
A fool is one who gives, and greater fool one who will not take.
German
A fool is the wise man’s ladder.
African
A fool may chance to say a wise thing.
Dutch
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Cowper
A fool never admires himself so much as when he has committed some folly.
Chinese
A fool only wins the first game.
Danish
A fool shoots; God guides the bullet.
Russian
A fool unless he knows Latin is never a great fool.
Spanish
A fool when he hath spoken hath done all.
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A fool who speaks the truth is better than a hundred liars.
German
A fool will not gie his bauble for the tower of London.
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A fool’s lips are the snare of his soul.
Bible
A fool’s voice is known by a multitude of words.
Bible
A pointless saying is a fool’s doing.
Punch
A prating fool shall fall.
Bible
A thorn in the foot and a fool’s answer, are two sharp things.
Irish
All but fools know fear sometimes.
Henry Hein
And fain would be upon the laughing side.
Pope
All places are filled with fools.
Cicero
An old fool is better than a young simpleton.
Danish
As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.
Bible
Be wise with speed,
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Young
By his immoderate laughter you can always distinguish a fool.
Latin
Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
Bible
Everybody must wear out one pair of fool’s shoes if he wear no more.
German
Every fool thinks he is clever enough.
Danish
Every fool wants to give advice.
Italian
Every fool will be meddling.
Bible
Every man hath a fool in his sleeve.
French
Every man’s friend, every man’s fool.
German
Fool is he who alone talks and is his only listener.
Turkish
Fools are free all the world over.
German
Fools are known by looking wise.
Butler
Fools are plentier than philosophers because there is more demand for them.
Durbin Ward
Fools for arguments use wagers.
Butler
Fools go in throngs.
French
Fools grin on fools.
Young
Fools grow without watering.
Italian
Fools must not be set on eggs.
German
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Pope
From many questions one knows a fool.
German
Great fools have great bells.
Dutch
Greater fools than those of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow.
Italian
He does a good day’s work who rids himself of a fool.
French
He exposes himself to be thought a fool who reports the follies of others.
French
He has great need of a fool who makes himself one.
French
He is a fool who avoids the place where he has aforetime broken his nose.
Russian
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
Italian
He is a fool who buys an ox to have good cream.
German
He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.
French
He is a fool that makes a mallet of his fist.
French
He is a fool who only hears himself speak.
German
He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
Bryant
He is a fool who spends more money than his receipts.
French
He is a fool who thinks that another does not think.
Italian, German, Portuguese
He is a great fool who forgets himself to feed another.
Spanish
He that can turn his hand to anything hath not the mind of a fool.
Chinese
He who is very learned is a very learned fool.
Tamil
He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him.
Danish
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
Welsh
If every one were wise, the fool would be the prize.
German
If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.
German
If there were neither fools or knaves in the world all people would be of one mind.
Spanish
If you want to get into the bog, ask five fools the way to the wood.
Livonian
It is better to deal with a whole fool than a half fool.
German
It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head.
Dutch
Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.
German
More fools, more fun.
French
Neither give to all nor contend with fools.
German
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Pope
Nothing looks so much like a man of sense as a fool that holds his tongue.
German
Nothing so foolish as the laugh of a fool.
Martial
Old fools are more foolish than voting ones.
Rochefoucauld
Ordinarily I can bear the sensible knave better than the fool.
Pope
The assistance of fools only brings an injury.
Latin
The false modesty of fools will conceal ulcers rather than have them cured.
Horace
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Bible
The fool and the brutish person die and leave their wealth to others.
Bible
The fool discerns the faults of others and forgets his own.
Cicero
What gifts to fools avail?
Homer
When fools shun one sort of vices they fall on their opposite extremes.
Horace
With fools it is always holiday.
Latin
Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know.
Dutch
Proverbs theme "Fool" in English
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