People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Dear Facebook, Just wait, one day they'll abandon you as well. Sincerely, Myspace — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I guess it's keep your head up, right? Killin' 'em with kindness 'cause they hate it when you're polite. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“You could always tell how much trouble you were in by how much someone stretched your name when they said it.” — Janus Lucky Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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