67 Proverbs about Folly / Page 2
21. It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
22. It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.
23. Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask.
24. Wisdom rides upon the ruins of folly.
25. A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, Truth is great and will win out.
26. Folly is the most incurable of maladies.
27. Folly is the product of all countries and ages.
28. If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.
29. Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.
30. Beauty and folly are often companions.
31. It is folly to gape against an oven.
32. To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.
33. What use is wisdom when folly reigns?
34. The malady that is more incurable is folly.
35. Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it.
36. If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.
37. Answer a fool according to his folly.
38. Beauty and folly are old companions.
39. Consent to common custom, but not to common folly.
40. Knowledge is the sister of folly.
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