Smart Aleck Sayings

#1. I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

#3. I blame Jeb for letting you be such a
smart aleck."
I stared at her. "I blame you for altering
my DNA! I mean, I have wings,
lady! What were you thinking?

James Patterson

#4. Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)

Raymond Chandler

#5. Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

Rabbit Maranville

#6. These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Rick Bragg

#7. Basically, I have two speeds ... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

James Patterson

#8. I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Robert Penn Warren

#9. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Maria V. Snyder

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

Lemony Snicket

#11. Everybody makes his own god(s).

Ludwig Feuerbach

#12. The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

William James

#14. If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

Bonnie Raitt

#16. The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

Jerry Rice

#17. I don't recall either of you asking me, you know I'm a lady and I need to be asked and agree to it.

Amanda Kelly

#18. Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the collective character of our nature.

Germaine De Stael

#19. Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

Cheryl Richardson

#20. I don't really have parents. I have parasitic ancestors who refuse to die."
-Halcyon Smith (Hero is a Man)

Nix Whittaker

#21. No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

Maxwell Maltz

#22. The Bible is the textbook of revelation.
In God's great classroom there are three textbooks - one called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation - the Bible - God speaks through words.

Billy Graham