Clever Quotes - Page 26

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

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.

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

It was fun to be clever.