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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.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
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.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.