Clever Quotes

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

It is better to play than do nothing.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.