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He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.

Proverbs and old sayings French about intelligence

Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.

Proverbs and old sayings French about weakness, ingratitude, intelligence

Too clever is dumb.

Proverbs and old sayings German about intelligence

A clever pig extracts a deep root.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about intelligence

A clever master turns even a loss into a gain.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about intelligence

You may be clever but you can never lose your shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about intelligence, shadow

I would rather have a clever woman than a rich one.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about intelligence, wealth, woman

A clever hawk hides its talons.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about intelligence

Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about intelligence

Messina is clever, Palermo is pompous; Messina is rich, Palermo is greedy.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about intelligence, wealth

Put a riddle to a fool a clever person will solve it.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, people

A person's cleverness is not shown by how many words he utters at once but how he utters them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

A rather sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more clever than other people.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, self-control, people, americans

The drunk ones will sober up, but the mad ones will not clever up.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about intelligence

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clowns

When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about games, bad luck, good luck

He who has no intelligence is happy with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about intelligence, happiness

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere about intelligence, age, olderness, heads

Smart people get the point from a single hint.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about intelligence, people