Smart Quotes

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.'

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

A mask tells us more than a face.

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Be smart, but never show it.

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge—that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman—or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It's how we make rules and why we obey them.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.

I was a baby when I came into the world—otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.