“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”

“Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen”

“Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.”

“Wise men think and speak alike.”

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Corelli asked. 'Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”