Clever Quotes - Page 4

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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?

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.