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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best. — Confucius

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. — Frances Wright

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it. — Thomas J. Barratt

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. — John Buchan

Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man. — George R R Martin

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha

For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners. — Joe Abercrombie

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life. — Leo Tolstoy

Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C.S. Lewis

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer. — Debasish Mridha

It took a clever man to figure out a way to make a profit off his bad habits. — Joe Hill

Beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right — Lawrence Hill

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared. — Richard Digance

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin. — Joe Abercrombie

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. — Wilkie Collins

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner. — J.D. Robb

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man. — Jane Austen

A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together — John Grisham

A clever fool and a foolish wise man. — George R R Martin

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. — Voltaire

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. — Euripides

No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save. Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together. — John Piper

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it ... — Arthur Conan Doyle

You've become a clever man. — Richard Russo

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. — Rock Hudson

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air — Mehmet Murat Ildan

While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM — R.v.m.

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting. — Nigel Lawson

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. — Mickey Rooney

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company. — Mark Twain

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The worst negotiator in the world is a man who believes he's clever. — Ken Follett

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! — Honore De Balzac

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known. — Sarah Jessica Parker

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself. — Henry James

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. — H.G.Wells

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is — Lesley Downer

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. — Euripides

Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals. — Michael Bassey Johnson

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. — Billy Crystal

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He — Paul Torday

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. — James Denney

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — Albert Schweitzer

This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war. — Bernard Cornwell

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham

My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... . — Ford Madox Ford

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean De La Bruyere

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper

Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever. — Philip Kerr

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. — Philippa Gregory

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours. — Victoria Alexander

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. — Tom Stoppard

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man. — John Steinbeck

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. — Israel Zangwill

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. — Thomas Carlyle

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld