Clever Quotes - Page 26

• To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Longing, Shows, Position

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.63, A&C Black

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• If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

  Julian Barnes

  Arguing, Ifs

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Greatness

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• A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Learning

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Retirement

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

  David Livingstone

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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• I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
  cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
  I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
  we've only got so many tricks.
  no one lives forever.

  Danny Elfman

  Death, Cutting, Dancing

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• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

  Ivan Krylov

  Freedom, Men, Suffering

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

  William M. Bulger

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Freedom

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• I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together.
  The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

  Michael Howard

  Wise, Military, Apology

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  Fannie Hurst

  Wise, Men, Intelligence

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• After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

  Hemant Joshi

  Marriage, Husband, Wedding Anniversary

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• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Hell, Musical

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

  Stan Kenton

  Funny, Music, Smart

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• After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

  Cato the Elder

  Life, Witty, Humorous

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• 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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• 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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