Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

John Mayer

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

John Major

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 Lubbock

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

John le Carre

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Jimmy Doolittle

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"

Traditionally, the stock market does well in the first year of recovery because you have a sharp rise in productivity and moderating wage demands, so unit labor costs plunge and profits grow rapidly. All the data tell you that is happening. What's weighing on the market is the recognition that the last three years' earnings were largely created by clever accountants rather than strong fundamentals.

Kary Mullis

A lot of people studying this disease are looking for clever little pathways they can piece together that will show how this works.

Witold Walczak

This clever tactical repackaging of creationism does not merit consideration. Intelligent design admits that it is not science unless science is redefined to include the supernatural.

Pat Robertson

They say a clever prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he gets the right grand jury, ... Was this sort of a setup?

This looks to be a clever and unexpected move by the Nasdaq exchange.

It was a lucky win. We weren't very clever in our play but we took our chance.

It's a clever way to try to get around the problem of giving investors information about individuals whose pay they wouldn't otherwise know about, without expanding the number to an unmanageable extent.

It's a clever move, they don't want to directly confront the regime.

David Allen

The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

Alan Thicke

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Charles Frazier

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

Benjamin Hoff

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with

Benjamin Hoff

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Bryan Adams

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Calista Flockhart

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Edwin Markham

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Will Durant

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

A. N. Wilson

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

A. A. Milne

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

A. A. Milne

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

Aeschylus

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

Dalia Mogahed

I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.

David Levithan

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.