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

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Everything changes but change.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

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

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

New York is the great stone desert.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The cold cut like a many bladed knife.

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

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.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.