Dual Panel1We no more give honors to fools than pray for snow in summer or rain during harvest.
2You have as little to fear from an undeserved curse as from the dart of a wren or the swoop of a swallow.
3A whip for the racehorse, a tiller for the sailboat--and a stick for the back of fools!
4Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool; you'll only look foolish yourself.
5Answer a fool in simple terms so he doesn't get a swelled head.
6You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.
7A proverb quoted by fools is limp as a wet noodle.
8Putting a fool in a place of honor is like setting a mud brick on a marble column.
9To ask a moron to quote a proverb is like putting a scalpel in the hands of a drunk.
10Hire a fool or a drunk and you shoot yourself in the foot.
11As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.
12See that man who thinks he's so smart? You can expect far more from a fool than from him.
13Loafers say, "It's dangerous out there! Tigers are prowling the streets!" and then pull the covers back over their heads.
14Just as a door turns on its hinges, so a lazybones turns back over in bed.
15A shiftless sluggard puts his fork in the pie, but is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.
16Dreamers fantasize their self-importance; they think they are smarter than a whole college faculty.
17You grab a mad dog by the ears when you butt into a quarrel that's none of your business.
18People who shrug off deliberate deceptions, saying, "I didn't mean it, I was only joking,"
19Are worse than careless campers who walk away from smoldering campfires.
20When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.
21A quarrelsome person in a dispute is like kerosene thrown on a fire.
22Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you want junk like that in your belly?
23Smooth talk from an evil heart is like glaze on cracked pottery.
24Your enemy shakes hands and greets you like an old friend, all the while conniving against you.
25When he speaks warmly to you, don't believe him for a minute; he's just waiting for the chance to rip you off.
26No matter how cunningly he conceals his malice, eventually his evil will be exposed in public.
27Malice backfires; spite boomerangs.
28Liars hate their victims; flatterers sabotage trust.