Proverbs

¹ than pray for snow in summer or rain during harvest.

² as from the dart of a wren or the swoop of a swallow.

³ and a stick for the back of fools!

⁴ you'll only look foolish yourself.

⁵ so he doesn't get a swelled head.

⁶ when you send a message by a fool.

⁷ is limp as a wet noodle.

⁸ is like setting a mud brick on a marble column.

⁹ is like putting a scalpel in the hands of a drunk.

¹⁰ and you shoot yourself in the foot.

¹¹ so fools recycle silliness.

¹² You can expect far more from a fool than from him.

¹³ Tigers are prowling the streets!" and then pull the covers back over their heads.

¹⁴ so a lazybones turns back over in bed.

¹⁵ but is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.

¹⁶ they think they are smarter than a whole college faculty.

¹⁷ when you butt into a quarrel that's none of your business.

¹⁸ saying, "I didn't mean it, I was only joking,"

¹⁹ who walk away from smoldering campfires.

²⁰ when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

²¹ is like kerosene thrown on a fire.

²² do you want junk like that in your belly?

²³ is like glaze on cracked pottery.

²⁴ all the while conniving against you.

²⁵ he's just waiting for the chance to rip you off.

²⁶ eventually his evil will be exposed in public.

²⁷ spite boomerangs.

²⁸ flatterers sabotage trust.