"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound…" — Baltasar Gracian
"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness."
More Cleverness Quotes
- Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. — Dave Barry
- Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us… — William Bernbach
- Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. — Arnold Bennett
- I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown
- We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,… — Tom Brown, Jr.
- The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who… — Jean de la Bruyere
- I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in… — Julie Burchill
- Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle
- Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often… — Walter de La Mare
- Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu