#lever

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

A clever man commits no minor blunders. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clever #clever man #commits #man #minor

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#half #intelligent #know #men #mr

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.' ↗

— Max Hastings

#brilliant #charming #children #clever #knew

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#admired #am #clever #clever people #i

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#cleverness #good #patience #thinking #writing

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. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#done #force #funny #gone #hadn

There is no bore like a clever bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#clever #like

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#never #people #think #try #trying

I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#eggs #funny #relationships #witty #witty