Quotes About Cleverness

You have to be smart as a football player.

Nihil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio (Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness)

Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else's expense.

the smartest man in the world

The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.

The tricky ones cannot survive without doing tricks.

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

A wise never treats the clever to be nice ever.

People are mostly so crookedly clever that they will never find any faults, follies or flaws in the wrongdoings of a self-seeker person till getting from him/her for merely own-self all undue favour.

People are so selfish and clever that they never support the social media post of a person until they see merely own profit stemming out of it or from him there.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Utilising wit in the thick of battle will be your key to victory.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.