20 Quotes Tagged: clever

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When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)

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The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

Civilization begins with distillation

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less skepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1835–1910)

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