Clever Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.”
– Tony Campolo

“In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.”
– John Mayer

“It’s clever, but is it Art?”
– Rudyard Kipling

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
– Naguib Mahfouz

“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
– Euripides

“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.”
– Jonathan Kozol

“Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.”
– Lech Walesa

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
– A. N. Wilson

“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.”
– Kim Basinger

“Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
– Titus Livius

“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“I’d rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That’s not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it’s too easy.”
– Jim Dale

“I’m crazy. I know I’m crazy ’cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he’s very clever. He said, ‘You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.’ And I’m going to.”
– Craig Ferguson

“I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.”
– Craig Ferguson

“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

“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.”
– Al Yankovic

“We’re as clever as we think we are, but we’ll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We’re at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time – there’s no reason why we can’t do it in other endeavors.”
– Lewis Thomas

“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn’t gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.”
– Ian Hislop

“One always 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

“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

“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 Trek.’ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.”
– Tim Robbins

“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich

“Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.”
– Kate Moss

“I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?”
– Jennifer Granholm

“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 by three-quarters.”
– John Major

“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

“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.”
– Israel Zangwill

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