Middle age Quote by Garrison Keillor

“Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.”

— Marisa de los Santos

“I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and…

— Marshall Thornton

“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

— Elwood P. Dowd

“In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.”

— Anonymous

“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”

— Mark Jenkins

“It's easy to romanticize after a couple of centuries.”

— Nora Roberts

“WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.”

— Nescio

“You're your own kind of smart. I loved the way he said the word "smart.”

— Amy Harmon

“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

— Jim Henson

“I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub…

— Victor J. Banis

“...it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”

— Carol Dweck