Clever Quotes - Page 26

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Respect, Writing

  New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

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• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  e. e. cummings

  Science, Doors, Next

  1 x 1 (1944) no. 14

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

  P. C. Hodgell

  Faith, Truth, Novelists

  P.C. Hodgell (2014). “The Sea of Time”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Witty, Knowledge

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

  James Denney

  Jesus, Men, Giving

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

  Simon Barnes

  Funny, Husband, Smart

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• Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

  Matt Groening

  Way

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Smart, Thinking

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• There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Smart, Devil

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Smart, Should Have

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• I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

  Brendan Grace

  Funny, Smart, Feet

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• When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Smart, Kids

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• They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Smart, Humor

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• Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

  Stewart Brand

  Funny, Smart, Gun

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• I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

  John Gielgud

  Funny, Smart, Favour

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• If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Smart, Boys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Night, Men

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.174, NYU Press

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• When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Men, Wisest Man

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• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wise, Wisdom, Meditation

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• Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

  Jeff Bezos

  Be Kind, Kind, Expenses

  "We are What We Choose". Princeton University 2010 speech, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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• It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

  F. J. Foakes-Jackson

  Kindness, Trying, Use

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• Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• 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

  School, Boys, College

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• All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  Kate Chopin

  Smile, Eye, Kissing

  Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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