Clever people

V:208

There are silly people who know themselves and make use of their silliness cleverly.

V:209

The person who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.

V:210

As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise.

V:244

Supreme cleverness lies in knowing the exact value of things.

V:245

You are immensely clever if you are able to hide your cleverness.

La Rochefoucauld - Maxims

It's always husband's fault

ROSALIND: You should never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's occasion, let her never nurse her child herself, for she will breed it like a fool.

William Shakespeare - As you like it (IV, 1)