Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
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- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- Idleness rusts the mind
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
- To hit the nail on the head
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- A fool at forty is a fool indeed
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Children and fools must not play with edged tools
- An idle brain is the devil's workshop
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- No living man all things can