Clever Life Quotes

#1. Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

Ernest Shackleton

#2. The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

Shusaku Endo

#3. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Barbara Ess

#4. Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

Allison Anders

#5. Whenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Lev Landau

#7. Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

Bear Grylls

#8. People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Paul Hoffman

#10. Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!

Deyth Banger

#11. She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.

Dorothy Dunnett

#12. I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Josh Thomas

#13. A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

John Lydon

#15. She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate.

Diane Setterfield

#16. Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Iyanla Vanzant

#17. I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Albert Einstein

#18. All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

Robert Breault

#19. A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

Amanda Mosher

#22. Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

David Eddings

#24. We don't need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.

M.F. Moonzajer

#25. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

Colin Dexter

#26. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#27. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.

Charles Kingsley

#28. There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.

Kim Harrison

#29. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler

#30. How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance - that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#32. Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

Dean Koontz

#33. The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Ogden Nash

#34. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

Jay Nordlinger

#35. I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, many new pairs of shoes.

Jen Lancaster

#36. What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

Crystal Woods

#37. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

Andy Warhol

#38. This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.

Rick Fields

#39. Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Orson Scott Card

#40. I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

#41. Ged stood sick and haggard. He said at last, "Better I had died." "Who are you to judge that, you for whom Nemmerle gave his life? - You are safe here. You will live here, and go on with your training. They tell me you were clever. Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#42. Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#43. What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

Tarjei Vesaas

#44. I love you. I wish there were different words that I could say, but no one's been clever enough to invent any yet. So it's all I've got. But it's everything. I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Please come home soon.

J. Sterling

#45. Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#46. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.

Nicole Lyons

#47. Today's "housewife" is a sassy, clever, opinionated woman who faces challenges head-on and never shies from telling it like it is
all the while hoping to create a happy "home life," regardless of what kind of home she has and who lives there.

Brandi Glanville

#48. I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.'
'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.

Tania Kindersley

#49. True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

Jewel

#50. Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Emil Nolde

#51. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Helen Walton

#52. Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

William Gaddis

#53. I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.

Tegan Quin

#54. I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

Daisy Donovan

#55. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.

Simone Weil

#56. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

George Hammond

#57. It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can't think of anything clever and original
at least, not at this moment.

Jerome K. Jerome

#58. Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Amanda Mosher

#59. So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?

Alexander McCall Smith

#60. You have to be clever in how you make money and save it, and clever in how you enjoy your life.

Ehab Atalla

#61. Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#62. Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!

Elisabeth Leamy

#63. Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.

Zane Stumpo

#64. Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

John Green

#65. Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the latter.

Haruki Murakami

#66. And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

Cary Grant

#67. The fox and the nightingale made a quiet life together. A lesser creature might have held Koja's mistakes against him, might have mocked him for his pride. But Lula was not only clever. She was wise.

Leigh Bardugo

#68. That your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer than it is, that you bow to the earth as you feel how it actually is, that we - so clever, and ambitious, and selfish, and unrestrained - are only one design of the moving, the vivacious many.

Mary Oliver

#69. 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

#70. Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

Julia Glass

#71. He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal
stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

T.H. White

#72. The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science.

John C. Lennox

#73. All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was.

Tanya Byrne

#74. I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

Rachel Kushner