Welcome to the Daily Audio Proverb. I'm Brian Hardin. It's great to be here with you today. It's the 26th of the month. So, we'll read the 26th chapter from the book of Proverbs today. From the message.

We no more give honors to fools than pray for snow and summer or rain during harvest. You have as little to fear from an undeserved curse as from the dart of a wren or the

swoop of a swallow.

A whip for the racehorse, a tiller for the sailboat, and a stick for the back of fools.

Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool. You'll only look foolish yourself.

Answer a fool in simple terms so he doesn't get a swelled head.

You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.

A proverb quoted by fools is limp as a wet noodle.

Putting a fool in a place of honor is like setting a mud brick on a marble column.

To ask a moron to quote a proverb is like putting a scalpel in the hands of a drunk.

Hire a fool or a drunk, and you shoot yourself in the foot.

As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness. See that man who thinks he's so smart?

You can expect far more from a fool than from him. Loafer's say it's dangerous out there.

Tigers are prowling in the streets and then pull the covers back over their heads.

Just as the door turns on its hinges, so a lazy bones turns back over in bed.

A shiftless sluggard puts his fork in the pie, but is too lazy to lift it to his mouth. Dreamers fantasize their self-importance.

They think they are smarter than a whole college faculty.

You grab a mad dog by the ears when you butt into a quarrel that's none of your business.

People who shrug off deliberate deceptions saying,

I didn't mean it, I was only joking, are worse than careless campers who walk away from smoldering campfires.

When you run out of wood, the fire goes out.

When the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

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