Quotes About Smart Alecks

#1. My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

Euzhan Palcy

#2. Don't be a smart aleck," Hungry said.
"But it cheers me up," I said.

Lemony Snicket

#3. What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Chinweizu Ibekwe

#4. A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

George Will

#5. Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

Steve Jobs

#7. And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Jane Austen

#8. We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Edward Abbey

#10. Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden