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.

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.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him read more

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

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.

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.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

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.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.