Clever Quotes - Page 3

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

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

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.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

Pressure makes diamonds

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.