It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
If you are much cleverer than your enemy, you can even help your enemy to stay alive and not to harm himself!
Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.
Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.
