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.
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
