Sentence examples for clever fool from inspiring English sources

His only useful function is to serve as a reminder that little is more dangerous than a clever fool.

But the dress itself is sacred, as you know, and even though I am a clever fool it stopped my thoughts and humbled me and made me listen.

For Davis, Leo has something of the clever fool known in Arab popular culture as Juha - Si' Jeha in the Maghreb - in Turkey and Cyprus as Nasreddin Hoca and in the Persian-speaking lands as Molla Nasruddin.

Schadenfreude for a clever fool who broke the law in ways to drive the feeblest imagination to a whispery chorus of there-but-for-the-grace...? Or plain, lowest common denominator sympathy for a family cursed with unimaginable punishment that seems so incalculably unfit for the crimes involved?

It had universal appeal: brutal in fact, but seemingly idealistic, the system solidified under Stalin won admiration in many poor countries, and from a host of clever fools in rich ones.Hitler's notions were woollier, more mystical, resting on such concepts as will, authority, racial superiority and worship of the leader.

The ants, normally so clever, are fooled, and turn into exceptionally generous hosts.

Google's partnership with Virgin, Project Virgle, is one of the more clever April Fools day pranks in recent memory.

I'd think this was just a clever April Fools' joke, if it weren't the middle of July.

But it was not clever enough to fool anyone and he was barred for one game.

Clever fakes can fool even experts, and there is a brisk industry producing them for sale to the unwary.

You're not clever enough to fool Facebook.