Five years Quote by Anton Chekhov

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.”

— Helen Smith

“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would worship, and…

— Emmuska Orczy

“A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together”

— John Grisham

“O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.”

— A Gentleman

“I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend…

— Jane Austen

“It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky