Clever Quotes - Page 5

• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, 4th Of July, Procrastination

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Hilarious, Dog

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Love You

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Food

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Today Life

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, You Make Me Happy

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  Salvador Dali

  Flower, Men, Artist

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Silly, Men, Evil

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 269, 1678.

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• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  Percy Ross

  Humorous, Doors, Mind

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• If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Should

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• Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

  Shel Silverstein

  Cute, Wise, Wisdom

  Shel Silverstein, “Tell Me”

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• Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Doe, Dull

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.863, Bantam

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• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

  Walter de La Mare

  Fashion, People, Perfect

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Smart, Stupid, Silly

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Mind, Vineyards

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Cutting, Simple

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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  Irving Layton

  Arguing, Argument, Convince

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Rise To Power, People

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• Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

  Duke of Wellington

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

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