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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
— Mark Twain
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld