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Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. Robert Reich
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Walter Kerr
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. Craig Ferguson
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‘Oh, I forgot that bit,’ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is! Richard P. Feynman
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. Dick Schaap
Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt. Tony Randall
Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash
Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he’s a master manipulator. He doesn’t really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he’s very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly. Paul Dini
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. Hugh Laurie
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever. David Perlmutter
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. Michelle Obama
The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can’t solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it’s gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature. Prince Charles
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man’s comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. Rosa Parks
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‘Star Trek.’ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. Terry Pratchett
There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic. Iris Apfel
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. James Lovelock
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic. Wilt Chamberlain
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that’s what we did. Gza
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel
Don’t believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living – they lie. Guy Finley
I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever. Ellie Goulding
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. Richard Perle
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them – and for my daughters, too. Louise Brown
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. Kate Chopin
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Ambrose Bierce
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it’s more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that’s all clever stuff. Tom Felton
He’s extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that’s what makes him so good on track with the battles. He’s not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do. Charles Leclerc
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth. Shel Silverstein
So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts. Pierre Poilievre
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. Antony Beevor
When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons. David Horsey
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. Israel Zangwill
Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it’s important and clever. He’s a hard worker, disciplined. Sven-Goran Eriksson
People think you can’t be clever if you have breasts. Kelly Brook
Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny. Hugh Dennis
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. Kim Basinger
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. Hugh Laurie
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Billy Wilder
Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming! Ricky Gervais
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer. Mort Sahl
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
Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it. John Kennedy
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself. Zadie Smith
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. Percy Ross
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
You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that’s not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can’t jump cliffs in a single bound. Terence Tao
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Cornel West
TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done. Goodman Ace
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. Jose Maria Aznar
There is no bore like a clever bore. Samuel Butler
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. Edsger Dijkstra
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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. Will Durant
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. Jennifer Ellison
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. W. C. Fields
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. Jonathan Kozol
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever. James Acaster
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful. Jurgen Klopp
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. Duke of Wellington
I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That’s how you know someone is clever. They don’t come out and tell you pi to 13 places – they tell you a joke. Ricky Gervais
Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong – they just don’t know when to stop. Margaret MacMillan
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer
I always thought ‘Of Mice and Men’ was such a perfect book because there’s nothing not to understand, but it’s still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication. Nick Hornby
I don’t like being called ‘macho.’ Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he’s smart. That’s smart in both senses: elegant and clever. Andrea Bocelli
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. Norm MacDonald
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. Brian Celio
And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It’s simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It’s a spoken smile, a verbal handshake. Gyles Brandreth
Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful. Sean Dyche
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes
If you’re too methodical, too fearful, you’re not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You’ve got to know when to push it and when to come back. Colin McRae
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. Jane Austen
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Euripides
Bachelor’ viewers are clever. Tayshia Adams
I have a fantastic husband. Here’s the honeymoon part: I still think he’s the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I’ve ever known. Sarah Jessica Parker
I think being nice is more important than being clever. Ricky Gervais
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. Patrick Demarchelier
My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He’s the one who inspired me to start writing music. He’s a wordsmith. He’s very clever. He uses a lot of similes and metaphors. He’s a beast of a rapper. Trip Lee
Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. Rowan Atkinson
It’s clever, but is it Art? Rudyard Kipling
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones. Peter Capaldi
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. Angela Carter
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple. Julian Bream
