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The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio De Chirico

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! — Geraldine McCaughrean

Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is. — Terry Pratchett

Sarcasm is a bad mood trying to be clever, — Sylvie Granotier

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves. — Marian Keyes

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — William Whitelaw

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance! — Alice Provensen

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever. — Brad Stone

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. — Jose Maria Aznar

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out. — Peter Redgrove

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"I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now. — Derek Landy

This is Adam Parrish," Gansey said. "Shake his hand. He's more clever than I am. One day we'll be throwing one of these shindigs for him. — Maggie Stiefvater

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst

Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil. — Billy S. VanOrsdol

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength. — Laozi

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever. — David Sedaris

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. — Catherynne M Valente

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. — Ogden Nash

You still said things like that then, still bothered trying to be clever. — Nic Kelman

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

Music is made for relax, let's don't move it... let's be clever and left it like this, shall we? — Deyth Banger

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind. — F. J. Foakes-Jackson

To can't be found as a killer or even caugh... you should be clever - books can teach that. — Deyth Banger

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick. — Tom Baker

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever. — M.F. Moonzajer

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected. — Louis J. Freeh

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly. — Natalya Vorobyova

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

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

208. "Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity." ~ — Nagarjuna

You have to be clever in how you make money and save it, and clever in how you enjoy your life. — Ehab Atalla

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so. — Pam Brown

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work. — Amit Kalantri

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever. — Mikhail Prokhorov

The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. — Maximilian Kolbe

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking — Vasily Klyuchevsky

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle. — Jill Badonsky

Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half. — Sharon Kay Penman

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough. — Curtis Jackson

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. — Saki

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. — Benjamin Disraeli

Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same. — Mark Lawrence

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. — George Pell

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original. — Ivan Chermayeff

Everything will be difficult, if there's no dream — Gregory Skovoroda

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever — Robin James

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart. — Laurie McBain

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses. — T.A. Miles

A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? — L.M. Montgomery

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever. — David Beckham

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. — A. N. Wilson

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful. — Jake Barton

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics. — Natalie Dormer

Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic. — Julia Glass

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it. — Gary L. Graybill

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever. — Harvey Dunn

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. — Jonathan Kozol

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. — Mercedes Lackey

Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever! — Lorraine Reguly

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good. — Naomi Novik

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. — Jeff Bezos

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life. — Paul Hoffman

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. — John Mayer

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

Be aware. Be Curious. Be Clever. Innovation is Something to be Reckoned with. — Daniel C. Tomas

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre. — Ann Coulter

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick — Lisa Kleypas

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid. — Jose Mourinho

With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research! — Louise Burfitt-Dons

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. — Terence

To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans — Zoe Marriott

We are learning to do a great many clever things ... The next great task will be to learn not to do them. — G.K. Chesterton

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — G.K. Chesterton

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever. — David Sedaris

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose. — Melissa D'Arabian

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm McLaren

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. — Hermann Hesse

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. — Kenneth Grahame

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics. — Gogen Yamaguchi

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever. — Karin Slaughter

The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart. — Charles Morey

I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart. — Alisa Hope Wagner

There are ways to get what you need out of your warrior. You just must be clever in finding them — Kristen Ashley

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? — Jeff Bezos