As a thorn, &c. “It is as dangerous for a fool to meddle with a proverb as for a drunkard to handle a thorn, wherewith he hurts himself: but the sharpest saying no more touches a fool with any compunction, though spoken by his own mouth, than the drunkard feels the thorn when it runs into his hand and gives him a grievous wound.” Bishop Patrick.
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Proverbs 26:9
9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.