Clever Quote by Socrates Download Open image “Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever Friendly Hostile Ridiculous
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh. — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality." — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
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
“There was once an old but clever donkey, who never liked the sting of any bee, Nor for all the Slung mud, did he… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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