#clever

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ↗

— Euripides

#clever #evil #friend #good #good man

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clever #contrived #country #does #go

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

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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

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ↗

— Stendhal

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

— Terence

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