Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
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- Head cook and bottle-washer
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
- Like master, like man
- Wise after the event
- A fool at forty is a fool indeed
- It is never too late to learn
- Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose
- Fools never know when they are well
- Little things amuse little minds
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- Fools grow without watering