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That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever. (Quote by - Mahmoud Abbas)

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)

Too clever is stupid. (Quote by - German Proverb)

You think you're so clever but I can see you. Go away!. (Quote by - Zara Phillips)

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. (Quote by - Irving Layton)

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. (Quote by - Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)

He was as good a political adviser as anyone could possibly wish to have. He's a sensible clever person. (Quote by - Lord Lamont)

If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting. (Quote by - Dave Gorman)

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. (Quote by - Percy Ross)

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

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. (Quote by - Amiel)

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. (Quote by - Angela Carter)

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

There is nothing clever about it or illegal. (Quote by - Robert Chapman)

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)

The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion. (Quote by - Bob Dole)

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art.. ..May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

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