Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honour is not fitting for a fool. This is how Solomon’s wisdom sayings start in Proverbs 26. They continue: Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest… like cutting off one’s feet is the sending of a message with a fool… as a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly… as a door turns on its hinges so a sluggard turns on his bed… like one who seizes a dog by its ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own… without wood a fire goes out and without gossip a quarrel dies down.
