Clever Quotes - Page 6

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

A successful business is either loved or needed.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.