Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
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A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four.
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian
Who lives foolishly as a youth, wails in old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about olderness, youth, age, old
Don't be foolish! because foolishness hits the mark and cursing doesn't.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Don't be foolish and awe struck, because foolishness is telling but cursing doesn't hit home.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home
By committing foolish acts, one learns wisdom.
Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, man
The foolish has a wagging tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh
Never try to be more foolish than the jester.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about clowns
A rich man's foolish sayings pass for wise ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth, man
It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about salary, enemies, war, peace
You can beat a fool half to death but you can't beat the foolishness out of him.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about death
A man and a goat can be friends but it would be foolishness for the goat to pay the first visit.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wisdom
You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish.
Proverbs and old sayings French about intelligence
A person slow to anger has great understanding; one with a quick temper exalts foolishness.
Proverbs and old sayings about anger, people
To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about world, wisdom
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about dance, blind, things
Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, a weak person powerful, a good generation of a bad one, a foolish man reasonable.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wisdom, people, bad luck, man, bad, good, good luck
Hurriedness is not necessarily the daughter of foolishness, and delay is not necessarily the daughter of cowardice.
Proverbs and old sayings about cowardice
