Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.