Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Writing is learning to say nothing more cleverly each day.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.
A clever imagination humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
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.
Natural selection as it has operated in human history favors not only the clever but the murderous.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say and always a clever thing to say.
My idea of good company is the company of clever well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft funny clever melodies and they also make a lot of music for kids which is terrific but when you see them in concert they can rock the house.
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny very verbal very clever very witty.