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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness read more
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, read more
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa
proverbio est.]
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
More knave than fool.
More knave than fool.
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.