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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.


John Peel


#i #make #mistakes #never #ones

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


Israel Zangwill


#appreciate #clever #cleverness #enough #his

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


Percy Ross


#closed #doors #humorous #imagination #minds

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.


Criss Jami


#clever #comprehend #comprehension #content #contentment

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.


H.G. Wells


#disbelief #intelligence #intelligence

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


#bosco #break #cale #clever #even

Some say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or…another?” Tyrion cocked his head sideways. “Did you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?” Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.” “So power is a mummer’s trick?” “A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” Tyrion smiled. “Lord Varyls, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it.


George R.R. Martin


#humor #philosophical #riddles #men

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.


Criss Jami


#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.


Goodman Ace


#call #clever #contraction #derived #done

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.


Russell Banks


#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate