English Dictionary

there's no fool like an old fool

ことわざ

If a person does not develop wisdom with age, then his or her foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.

日本語の意味

年を重ねても知恵が身に付かない人は、その愚かさがより一層目立ち、恥ずかしい状態であるという意味。 / 老いを重ねても学びや成長が見られない者は、その失敗や愚劣さが顕著に露呈するという戒め。

When he stubbornly repeated the same mistake at sixty, his daughter sighed and muttered, there's no fool like an old fool, under her breath.

年を取っても愚かさが直らない人ほど愚かな者はいない。

意味（1）

If a person does not develop wisdom with age, then his or her foolishness is all the more obvious and shameful.

You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money!