It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be read more

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.

It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.