Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. — Helen Walton Copy Share Image
“I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's important that I'm properly… — Tommy Donbavand Copy Share Image
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs. — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that. — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
