A Quote by unknown on children, cleverness, friendship, grace, justice,...
What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge - grand as knowledge is - but just the laughter of...
View ArticleA Quote by unknown on cleverness, learning, and men
Two men wrote a lexicon, Liddell and Scott; Some parts were clever, but some parts were not. Hear, all ye learned, and read me this riddle, How the wrong par wrote Scott, and the right part wrote...
View ArticleA Quote by unknown on cleverness, education, good, and men
Secular education can make men clever, but it cannot make them good. Contributed by: Zaady read more
View ArticleA Quote by Walter Kerr on cleverness, composers, people, and world
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Contributed by: Zaady read more
View ArticleA Quote by Walter Lippmann on achievement, authority, cleverness, cynicism,...
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic...
View ArticleA Quote by Will Durant on cleverness, good, and history
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Contributed by: Zaady read more
View ArticleA Quote by William of Baskerville on cleverness and foolishness
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. Source: The Name of the Rose Contributed by: Zaady read more
View ArticleA Quote by William Symonds on admiration, cleverness, company, day,...
William Symonds, in his 1612 history of the Virginia colonies, also omits the Pocahontas episode, relating instead that Smith secured his release through his own clever connivance: "A month those...
View ArticleA Quote by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on cleverness, honor,...
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a...
View ArticleA Quote by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on cleverness and time
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 the third time - a tremendous whack....
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