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there's no fool like an old fool

there's no fool like an old fool proverb: if a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.

Proverb

there's no fool like an old fool

  1. If a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.
    • You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money!1920 October, Agatha Christie, “I Go to Styles”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.; London: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, page 24

Questions about there's no fool like an old fool

What does there's no fool like an old fool mean?
There's no fool like an old fool means if a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.
What part of speech is there's no fool like an old fool?
There's no fool like an old fool is a proverb.

Words near there's no fool like an old fool in the dictionary

  1. there's more than one way to skin a cat
  2. there's more where that came from
  3. there's no "there" there
  4. there's no accounting for taste
  5. there's no business like show business
  6. there's no fool like an old fool
  7. there's no I in team
  8. there's no place like home
  9. there's no point crying over spilt milk
  10. there's no shame in my game
  11. there's no smoke without fire

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