Clever Quotes

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid… — John Major
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. — W. Somerset Maugham
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. — Dean Martin
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. — Groucho Marx
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. — John C. Maxwell
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. — John Mayer
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural. — Sienna Miller
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. — Wilson Mizner
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out… — Eric Morecambe
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. — Kate Moss
I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's… — Kevin Nealon
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have. — Leonard Nimoy
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry… — Kevin O'Leary
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you… — P.J. O'Rourke
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show… — Yoko Ono
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. — Gilbert Parker
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known. — Sarah Jessica Parker
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. — Cesare Pavese
We tend to get what we expect. — Norman Vincent Peale
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. — Laurence J. Peter
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star… — Terry Pratchett

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