Cracked Pipkins

Cracked pipkins are discovered by their sound. Ignorance is betrayed by speech.

“They bid you talk—my honest song

Bids you for ever hold your tongue:

Silence with some is wisdom most profound—

Cracked pipkins are discovered by the sound.”

Peter Pindar: Lord B. and his Motions.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.