When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise.
Source: Yiddish Proverb
When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise.
“Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.†— from Prayer as reprinted in Resurrection, 1966
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
The man who claims never to have known fear is either a fool or a liar.
Only a fool fights in a burning house.
...even I ... if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free...I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
"We're fools whether or not we dance, so we might as well dance"
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.