Saturday 13 May 2017

Clever Sayings and Quotes



The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.    

Abraham Lincoln





Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken





Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.    

Henry Ford





If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

Guy Finley





You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.    

Naguib Mahfouz





No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.    

Mark Haddon





Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Livy





Beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right    

Lawrence Hill





I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Albert Einstein





Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.    

Charles Kingsley





Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Robert Kennedy





He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.    

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.





No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld





The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

George R.R. Martin





When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on    

Theodore Roosevelt





One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant





Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.    

Cornel West





The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe





Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.    

Graham Greene





Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire





Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.    

Thomas Huxley





He obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe





The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month

Fyodor Dostoevsky





Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.    

Ludwig Wittgenstein





A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.    

William Makepeace Thackeray





Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.    

Henri Frederic Amiel





What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.    

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand





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





Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel





An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.    

James Lovelock




A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

C. S. Lewis





To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it    

George Bernard Shaw





Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

Doris M. Smith





If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.    

Benjamin Disraeli





A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds    

Percy Ross





Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever

Criss Jami





The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them

George R.R. Martin





Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil

C. S. Lewis





Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men    

George Bernard Shaw





To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.    

Criss Jami





Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.    

Mark Haddon





Be aware. Be Curious. Be Clever. Innovation is Something to be Reckoned with.    

Daniel C. Tomas





Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman.

Matshona Dhliwayo





The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.    

Criss Jami





There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

Ian Driscoll





Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.    

Bobby Darnell





Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

M.F. Moonzajer





It Is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld





Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.    

Henri Frederic Amiel





Clever men are good, but they are not the best.    

Thomas Carlyle

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