there's no fool like an old fool
English
Proverb
there's no fool like an old fool
- If a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.
- 1920 October, Agatha Christie, “I Go to Styles”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published March 1927, page 24:
- 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!
Translations
if a person does not develop wisdom with age, then their foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful
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