Clever Quotes

1299 Clever quotes by 763 unique authors

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all… — Thomas Sowell
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a… — Steven Hall
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. — George Bernard Shaw
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. — E F Schumacher
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. — Heinrich Heine
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when she does it.… — Kerry Ellis
There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be… — Al Yankovic
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. — Erich Fromm
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. — David Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. — Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. — Robert Frost
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. — Robert Frost
There is more to life than increasing its speed. — Mahatma Gandhi
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi
A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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