By blood a king, in heart a clown. [ Tennyson ]

As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

You put the clown above the gentleman. [ Proverb ]

Expression is the dress of thought, and
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed,
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed. [ Pope ]

No fine clothes can hide the fool or clown. [ Proverb ]

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Seven hour's sleep will make a clown forget his design. [ Proverb ]

A good pinch and a rap with a stick is a clown's compliment. [ Proverb ]

The clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. [ Spanish Proverb ]

You must not expect sweet from a dunghill, nor honour from a clown. [ Proverb ]

Uncertain whose the narrowest span, - the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. [ Dryden ]

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. If it hoards, it impoverishes itself. What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have leisure and a quiet mind. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]