Clever Quotes - Page 30

• 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'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.

  Tom Neff

  Funny, Smart, Believe

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• Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Smart, Reading

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• Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Smart, Pigs

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• I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Smart, Thinking

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• Worst Month of the Year: February. February has only 28 days in it, which means that if you rent an apartment, you are paying for three full days you don't get. Try to avoid Februarys whenever possible.

  Steven Rubenstein

  Funny, Smart, Mean

  "A very good year, sort of - 1982" by Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

  John Berryman

  Funny, Smart, Offering

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rome, Civilization

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Stupid, Hate

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

  Alberto Moravia

  War, Soldier, Machines

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• Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

  Susan Blackmore

  Quality, Males, Female

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• Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

  Karin Slaughter

  Smart, Order, Long

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• My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

  Charlie Higson

  Crazy, Stupid, Half

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• The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

  Andrew Marr

  Country, Government, Self

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

  Brian Kernighan

  Writing, Debugging, Programming

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and great, and he hoped to make himself master of all the Land of Oz that he might compel everyone in that fairy country to obey him, His ambition blinded him to the rights of others, and he imagined anyone else would act just as he did if anyone else happened to be as clever as himself.

  L. Frank Baum

  Country, Powerful, Ambition

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “L. FRANK BAUM - Ultimate Collection: Complete Wizard of Oz Series, The Aunt Jane’s Nieces Collection, Mary Louise Mysteries, Fantasy Novels & Fairy Tales: Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, Dot and Tot of Merryland, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Enchanted Island of Yew, The Sea Fairies, Sky Island…”, p.1715, e-artnow

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• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Giving

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

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• There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

  Robert Boyle

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

  David Baddiel

  Witty, Profound, Charm

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• I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

  Carles Puyol

  Hard Work, Technique, Doe

  "Puyol: Xavi wrong about Simeone's amazing Atletico Madrid" by Juan Carlos Gutierrez, www.goal.com. May 26, 2016.

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• Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Somewhere Else, Knowing, Needs

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 16, 2017

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• Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

  Simon Gray

  Stupid, Thinking, Long

  Simon Gray (1986). “Plays, one”, Drama

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• I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

  Dick Schaap

  Games, Hook, Stories

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Children, May, Down And

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