A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his minds eye.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Reward is its own virtue.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.