Cuts off the feet - Mutilates him, spoils the work which the me enger should fulfill.

Drinks damage - i.e., “has to drink fu…

Cuts off the feet.— He wants his business done, but if he sends a fool to do it, he might as well cut off his messenger’s legs, be…

He that sends a message by the hand of a fool Who knows not how to deliver it in a proper manner, and is incapable of tak…

Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honor. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness.