There is nothing like an old fool???What does that mean?

Answer 1

It means how sad it is to have reach the age of wisdom without ever having learned a darn thing about life.

Answer 2

It means that the older one gets in life they learn the lessons that a long life gives them. One who has grown old is very hard to fool, therefore old people are rarely fools and there is no such thing as an old person that is still a fool.

Answer 3

There's no fool like an old fool.

It's a really old idiom; means that someone who has reached a ripe old age and is still foolish must be Especially foolish not to have learned yet.

"An old fool is the worst kind of fool"

http://www.answers.com/topic/no-fool-like-an-old-fool-there-s

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".

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/43/messages/997.html

Answer 4

an old fool is a supposedly mature person who never seems to learn the wisdom of life. now what could be worse than that?

Answer 5

A supposedly mature individual that does not make rational decisions.
The older we are, we are expected to act and behave in a certain conformed way, one that acts foolish or blows caution to the wind, is frowned upon. It is an old saying.

Answer 6

There is nothing like an elder who hasn't learned through life after so many years.

Answer 7

The are speaking of a person that goes through their whole life gaining no wisdom from their mistakes.

Answer 8

fools come in all ages

Answer 9

When a person has been Foolish all of his/her LIFE, and old enough to know better, but still being stupid.

Answer 10

agree with the 1st 2 answerers