Clever Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “There is no bore like a clever bore.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever
The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything. — Frank Tyger Copy Share Image
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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image
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Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
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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'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
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image