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A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.

Proverbs and old sayings about sex, intelligence, woman, man

To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about science, intelligence, people

Where there is a glut of words, there is a dearth of intelligence.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about intelligence

It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about intelligence, children, god

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about intelligence, people

Too clever is stupid.

Proverbs and old sayings German about intelligence

Smart people get the point from a single hint.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about intelligence, people

The crow is clever, but looks at what it eats.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about intelligence

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings about education, intelligence, bad, rightness, americans, man

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about intelligence

The clever bird is easily trapped in the leaves at the edges.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence

It takes a smart woman to be a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, woman, americans

A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, americans, good, good luck

The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about intelligence, judges, law, americans, good, good luck

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

Smart people are blessed.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, people

For smart people, signs can replace words.

Proverbs and old sayings about astrology, intelligence, people

Smart bird gets trapped in its beak.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere about intelligence

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

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali about intelligence

Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about intelligence, ignorance, man