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| A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer. Italian. | 1 |
| A fool is always meditating how he shall begin his life; a wise man, how he shall end it. N. McDonald. | 2 |
| A fool knows his own business better than a wise man that of other men. Italian. | 3 |
| A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another’s. | 4 |
| A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. | 5 |
| A fool may chance to put something in a wise man’s head. | 6 |
| A fool may give a wise man counsel. | 7 |
| A fool may make money but it requires a wise man to spend it. | 8 |
| A fool may meet with good fortune but the wise only profit by it. | 9 |
| A fool throws a stone into a well and it requires an hundred wise men to get it out again. Italian. | 10 |
| A man may talk like a wise man, yet act like a fool. | 11 |
| Amangst twenty-four fools no ae wise man. | 12 |
| A nod for a wise man and a rod for a fool. | 13 |
| A rich fool is a wise man’s treasurer. | 14 |
| A wise man and a fool together know more than a wise man alone. Italian. | 15 |
| A wise man begins in the end, and a fool ends in the beginning. | 16 |
| A wise man changes his mind, a fool never. Spanish. | 17 |
| A wise man may learn of a fool. | 18 |
| A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. | 19 |
| A wise man’s thoughts walk within him, a fool’s without him. | 20 |
| A wise man’s soul reposes at the root of his tongue, but a fool’s is ever dancing on the tip. Arabian. | 21 |
| A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks. | 22 |
| A wise man will not reprove a fool. Chinese. | 23 |
| Better to weep with the wise than laugh with fools. German. | 24 |
| Better with the wise in prison than with fools in paradise. German. | 25 |
| Bridges were made for wise men to walk over and fools to ride under. | 26 |
| Each wise man has a fool for his brother. German. | 27 |
| Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy. | 28 |
| Fools are wise men in the affairs of women. | 29 |
| Fools ask, What o’clock? but wise men know their time. Dutch. | 30 |
| Fools build houses and wise men buy them. Dutch. | 31 |
| Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them. French. | 32 |
| Fools lade out all the water and wise men take the fish. | 33 |
| Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. | 34 |
| Fools may ask more in an hour than wise men can answer in seven years. | 35 |
| Fools set stools for wise men to stumble at. | 36 |
| Fools tie knots and wise men loose them. | 37 |
| He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not. | 38 |
| He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion. Italian. | 39 |
| He that is a wise man by day is no fool by night. | 40 |
| If a wise man should never miscarry the fool would burst. | 41 |
| If the fool have a hump no one notices; if the wise man have a pimple everybody talks about it. Livonian. | 42 |
| If wise men never erred it would go hard with the fool. | 43 |
| If wise men play the fool they do it with a vengeance. | 44 |
| It is better to associate with the half fool than the half wise man. German. | 45 |
| It is better to be saved with the fool, than to perish with the wise. De Langoiran. | 46 |
| It is better to sit with a wise man in prison than a fool in paradise. | 47 |
| It takes a wise man to be a fool. | 48 |
| None can play the fool as well as a wise man. | 49 |
| Oftentimes to please fools wise men err. | 50 |
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| One day of a wise man is worth the whole life of a fool. | 51 |
| One fool makes many, but a thousand wise men cannot make one wise man. German. | 52 |
| One wise man is worth a thousand fools. Modern Greek. | 53 |
| Set a fool to roast eggs and a wise man to eat them. | 54 |
| That which makes wise men modest makes fools unmannerly. | 55 |
| The fool doth think that he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Shakespeare. | 56 |
| The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men’s. Italian. | 57 |
| The fool may teach the wise man wit. | 58 |
| The fool wanders, the wise man travels. | 59 |
| The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli. | 60 |
| The greatest of all fools is he who is wise too soon. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 61 |
| The least foolish is accounted wise. | 62 |
| The wise and the fool have their fellow. | 63 |
| The wise can learn of fools. German. | 64 |
| The wise do at the beginning what fools do at the end. German. | 65 |
| The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than a fool from his friends. | 66 |
| The wise man when he holds his tongue says more than a fool when he speaks. | 67 |
| The wise man is born to rule the fool. | 68 |
| The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. Italian. | 69 |
| The wise man knows the fool but the fool does not know the wise man. | 70 |
| The wise must endure fools. German. | 71 |
| The wise seek wisdom, the fool has found it. German. | 72 |
| The wise too jealous are, fools too secure. Congreve. | 73 |
| There is no one so wise that he may not be cheated by a fool. German. | 74 |
| Valiant fools were made by nature for the wise to work with. Rowe. | 75 |
| Were there no fools there would be no wise men. German. | 76 |
| Wise men change their minds, fools never. | 77 |
| Wise men have their mouth in their heart; fools their heart in their mouth. | 78 |
| Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes; fools by their own. | 79 |
| Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from wise men. Cato the Censor. | 80 |
| Wise men sue for office and blockheads get them. Dutch. | 81 |
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