I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Let's talk, let's converse, let's both disperse thoughts and dreams before time can reclaim two careless teens.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I love you and you feel the same, so why play this petty game? Driving ourselves insane, let's call a truce and… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever,… — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend… — Banksy Copy Share Image