Quotes by Clever We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. Francois de La Rochefoucauld different clever way The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. Francois de La Rochefoucauld wisdom clever men Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever Francois de La Rochefoucauld passion clever men As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." G. H. Hardy clever boys school It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cleverness able clever The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cleverness clever desire Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez three secret clever It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular Francois de La Rochefoucauld easier clever people A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. Francois de La Rochefoucauld clever men fall The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say. Francois de La Rochefoucauld eye clever mind This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! Friedrich Nietzsche ifs clever beautiful Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! Friedrich Nietzsche rights clever people Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever. Garrison Keillor clever may children One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. Friedrich Nietzsche embarrassed clever people I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all. Garrison Keillor clever past thinking Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it. Gavin de Becker intuition clever people Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity. Gelila Bekele longevity appearance clever I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp. Gemma Arterton smart clever thinking Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things. Gene Roddenberry hard-work stars clever Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. Gene Roddenberry hard-work pyramids clever «1516171819202122232425»
