(226 quotes found)
“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
Cesare Pavese
“I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
Voltaire
“When you say one thing, the clever person understands three”
Chinese Proverbs
“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them”
Walter Kerr
“Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh”
Sun Tzu
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say”
Will Durant
“It's good to be clever, but not to show it.”
French Proverb
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
