Quotes About Smart Men

#1. Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Leonard Ravenhill

#2. She pointed a finger at him. "Smart men don't comment on a woman's eating habits, regardless of how many brownies she can shove in her mouth at one time."
He laughed. "In that case, I guess I'm not as smart as you think I am.

Kait Ballenger

#3. Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.

C.J. Hill

#4. Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

Colin Chapman

#5. I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

Morrie Brickman

#6. If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

Isaac Newton

#7. I have a weakness for smart men.

Deborah Harkness

#8. That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.

Jade Lee

#9. Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

Colin Cowherd

#10. Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

#11. What is this bluestocking?"
"A woman who fancies herself a member of the intelligentsia." He lowered his voice. "It's against the laws of nature."
Alexsey lifted his brows. "Why are you whispering? Afraid of bluestockings, are you?"
"All smart men are.

Karen Hawkins

#12. We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.

John William McCormack

#13. It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

Havilah Babcock

#14. Smart men play close to the line because they have to
some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

James Marsden

#17. Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Erwin Rommel

#18. I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#19. People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

Anna Bayes

#20. He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

Wendy Walker

#21. You realize we are two smart women who are not acting very smart right now,' she said.
'Huh?'
'We know better than to try to figure out what a man is up to. This'll get worked out when it's suppose to.

Alice Clayton

#22. You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

Arlene Dahl

#23. He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

Michael Newdow

#24. In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Honore De Balzac

#25. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#26. For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

#27. He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Charles Spurgeon

#28. Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

Ernest Shackleton

#29. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

Simone Elkeles

#30. Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Lillian Vernon

#31. My wife was a riddle. I think all women are. Men are not riddles, even the smart ones. We are independent clauses, such as: "I like meat." "Water feel good.

Harrison Scott Key

#32. I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

James Brown

#33. She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Margaret Way

#34. Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

Jacque Fresco

#35. Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed as if on cue. I glanced at Mahon. "You really shouldn't let him talk to you like that.

Ilona Andrews

#36. A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin.
And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

David Baldacci

#37. Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Sarah Louise Delany

#38. Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

Orson Scott Card

#39. There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you're insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, "Hey, I'm a pretty smart guy and I'm pulling it together ... "

Charlie Day

#40. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Brenda Jackson

#41. Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Yul Brynner

#42. As long as she doesn't turn too smart for men
For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman's' downfall.

Nina George

#43. The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?

Colette

#44. Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Josh Billings

#45. No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

E.W. Howe

#46. Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

Joe Haldeman

#47. My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.

Gena Showalter

#48. We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.

Julia Phillips

#49. I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#50. You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

Junot Diaz

#51. I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything,

Leo Burnett

#52. Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be out of his league in ways he'll never understand. But he'll appreciate what he doesn't understand - if he's smart.

James Anderson

#53. Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

Barbara Tuchman

#54. I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.

Katie McGrath

#55. Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

Matthew William Goode

#56. My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

Marco Rubio

#57. The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

#58. Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

Ian Somerhalder

#59. The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?"
"You chew gum?"
"No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons."
"Do you see how I'm not asking you?"
"Smart.

Kate Griffin

#60. Live and let live.
Love thyself, in order to love thy man.
Smart, independent women attract men.

Titania Hudson

#61. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.

Dan Groat

#62. A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

Johnny Moss

#63. The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

Carrie Coon

#64. It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

Bret Easton Ellis

#65. It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

John Dos Passos

#66. You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

LL Cool J

#67. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#68. How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

#69. Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Meryl Streep

#70. To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#71. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

Amit Kalantri

#72. Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.

Julie Powell

#73. Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Ray Bradbury

#74. Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.

Kelley Armstrong

#75. If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best ... need I say more?

Nancy Allen

#76. Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

Tyne O'Connell

#77. Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

Karin Slaughter

#78. I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Jules Asner

#79. The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

William Shakespeare

#80. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Karen Essex

#81. No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

George Henry Lewes

#82. Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

Tamara Mellon

#83. There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Robert Charles Wilson

#84. I'll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it's more than an elixir, it's nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.

Pamela Morsi

#85. The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

Alexander Pope

#86. But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Paul Krugman

#87. Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

#88. I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

Jeffrey Smart

#89. God is unveiling women around the world. He always has and continues to work through women and girls, who are half of His church. They are, like men and boys, His image bearers. They are also, like men and boys, gifted, empowered, smart, and anointed.

Jen Hatmaker

#90. Good sex isn't complete without cuddling and aftercare.

Women instinctively know this. Men, if they're smart, figure it out.

Nikki Sex

#91. Smart boys make useless men.

Patrick Ness