Clever Quotes - Page 29

• The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Names, Way, Advertising

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Sep 25, 2014

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

  Euripides

  Medicine, Sick, Needs

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Death, Fall, Cutting

  "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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• I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

  Paula Poundstone

  Witty, Mean, Thinking

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• I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

  Maggie Tabberer

  Women, People, Good Woman

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• Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

  Miles Franklin

  Girl, Husband, Women

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.76, The Floating Press

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• That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

  Eva Longoria

  Pregnancy, Typical, World

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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

  Camille Paglia

  Sexy, Funny Sex, Sex Relationships

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Witty, Morning

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• Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Rising, Laziness

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• For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

  Jilly Cooper

  Beautiful, Men, Sexiness

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Wisdom, Tired

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Indulge In

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• Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

  James Alan Gardner

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

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• Take care that no one hates you justly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Forgiveness, Hate, Hatred

  "Maxims".

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• Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

  David Joyner

  Motivational, Smart, Lines

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• Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Stupid, Technology, Unix

  "Introducing Regular Expressions". Book by Michael Fitzgerald, 2012.

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• In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

  Max De Pree

  Motivational, Change, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

  Richard D. Ryder

  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

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• The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reading, Reality, Doe

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• We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, Spiritual

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• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  W. H. Auden

  Song, Stupid, Character

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• Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

  Thomas J. Barratt

  Men, Design, Soap

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