Clever Quotes, Quotations and Sayings
God is clever, but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
Here’s a rule of thumb. Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley
If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon/
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William Of Baskerville
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Lao Tzu
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Oscar Wilde
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things. It means they concentrate on football.
Bill Nicholson
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Every rule has an exception. Especially this one.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis
I once prayed to god for a bike, but quickly found out he didnt work that way…so I stole a bike and prayed for his forgiveness.
You would think I would be smart enough to figure it out myself after about three years, but I wasn’t quite clever enough.
Darren Clarke
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station…
The surest aid in combating the male’s disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Give a man a match, and he’ll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.
If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?
If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
You can’t be late until you show up.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz