Clever Quote by Fannie Hurst Download Open image “It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.” — Fannie Hurst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever Clever man Cynic Cynic Wise Enough Fool Man Clever Takes Clever Wisdom Wise Wise man
Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise. — Laozi Copy Share Image
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
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writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
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What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If she is stupid enough to let you go, you're clever enough not to look back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
'I Love You' fails to sum up all the memories, smiles, laughs, trials, and tribulations. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image