| John Ray - 1818 - 318 pages
...horse and mare trot. A fool and his money are soon parted. No fool to the old fool. .Kvory man hath л fool in his sleeve. Fools will be meddling. A fool may ask more questions in an hour, than a wi*e man can answer in seven years. A fool may put somewhat in a wise body'« head. A fool's bolt is... | |
| William Chillingworth - Protestantism - 1820 - 534 pages
...will defend his cause, or impugn our's. And it will be in vain to speak vainly, and to tell me, that a fool may ask more questions in an hour, than a wise man can answer in a year; with such idle proverbs as that : for I ask but such questions as for which he gives occasion... | |
| John Wade - Church - 1824 - 258 pages
...nor grapes from thistles. If we would succeed in any business we must use means adapted to the end. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. A proud eye, an open purse, and a light wife, brceds mischief to the first, misery to the second, and... | |
| C. de Méry - Proverbs - 1828 - 544 pages
...répondit-il, parce que je fais les premières pendant le jour, et les seconds pendant la nuit. 63. An ass may ask more questions in an hour, than a wise man can answer in a year, un sot peut faire plus de questions en une heure, qu'un homme de sens n'en peut résoudre en... | |
| William Chillingworth - Protestantism - 1838 - 462 pages
...who will defend his cause or impugn ours. And it will be in vain to speak vainly, and to tell me that a fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in a year ; with such idle proverbs as that : for I ask but such questions as for which he gives occasion... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...is cautimis ami prurient, is generally secure from many dangers, to which many others are exposed. 2 A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man may answer in seven years 3. The manner in which words are delivered contribute mainly to the effects... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...is cautious and prudent, is generally secure from many dangers, to which many others are exposed. 2. A fool may ask more questions in an hour, than a wise man may answer in teven years. 3. The manner in which words are delivered, contribute mainly to the effects... | |
| Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...number) — but hitherto all in vain; and I am reduced to acknowledge the truth of the old proverb, " A may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years:" — I. " For thus will most truly be verified the laying nf the poet, ' A good wife, by obeying her... | |
| Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...number) — but hitherto all in vain; and I am reduced to acknowledge the truth of the old proverb, " A may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years : " — I. " For thus will most truly he verified the saying of the pott, 'A good wile, by obeying... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus, Robert Gordon Latham - Germanic peoples - 1851 - 502 pages
...into collision with the higher wisdom of a true sage ; and, upon the ground of a fool being able to ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in a day, succeeds in puzzling the higher wisdom of his opponent. Now Marcolf is a German name ; and although... | |
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