Re: There's no fool like an old fool

Posted by Victoria S Dennis on November 02, 2005

In Reply to: There's no fool like an old fool Posted by Lorraine J Goguen on November 02, 2005

: There's no fool like an old fool...Origin please?

It was already a proverb in 1546, when it was published in "A Dialogue of Proverbs" by J Heywood in this form: "But there is no foole to the olde foole, folke saie".