Quotes by Clever Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. George Pell causes energy clever Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way. George Carlin hurt clever kids There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting! George Carlin friday clever funny The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. George R. R. Martin clever laughing men Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. Gautama Buddha buddhist clever men Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way. George Carlin hurt clever kids The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel. George R. R. Martin daughter kings clever Pressure makes diamonds George S. Patton military pressure clever I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. George Seaton aunt clever writing If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned. George Eliot fancy lessons clever Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! Geraldine McCaughrean strong clever beautiful There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out. Geraldine McCaughrean roaming-around labyrinth clever Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom. Germaine Greer girl clever men Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw hell music clever It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker clever people thinking A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory. Germaine Greer marriage husband clever To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Gilbert K. Chesterton money clever funny How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Gilbert K. Chesterton failure encouragement clever It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. Giorgio de Chirico crazy clever today There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. George Orwell smart clever funny «1718192021222324252627»
