The right answer to a fool is silence


Afghan Proverb

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Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The best answer to anger is silence.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Silence is sometimes the answer
ESTONIAN PROVERB
A long pause, no answer; leads to silence and a straight answer.
GINA JAMMAL
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
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NICHOLAS BURNS
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BIBLE
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
THOMAS MERTON
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MARCUS AURELIUS
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Never wash blood, with blood.
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A little water is a sea to an ant
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When the tiger kills, the jackal profits
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Give even an onion graciously
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The person sins, then blames Satan for it
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If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk.
AFGHAN PROVERB
Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
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Water which is too pure has no fish
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If you deal in camels, make the doors high
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
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No one but a fool is always right.
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Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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Call me a joker, call me a foolRight at this moment I'm totally cool.
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And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
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JOHN KEATS
A proverb is the child of experience.
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A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
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CONRAD HILTON
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
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A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
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Being slick is not the right answer.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
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PAULO COELHO
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
BRYANT H. MCGILL
The proverb is something musty.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The fate of the Afghan people is extremely important to Iran,
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
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JUNAID RAZA
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CHARLIE ERGEN
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The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.
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Antonio is constantly sweeping the horizon for the right answer,
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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