John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
8416 Bidpai John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 8416 |
| AUTHOR: | Bidpai |
| QUOTATION: | Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. |