120 Clever Quotes About Life That Are Also Funny

Clever quotes about life, love, and relationship are very inspirational. Some of the clever sayings contained here are considered short clever quotes with hilarity but that doesn’t make them less true. They are deep enough to make you think despite their sarcastic and witty nature.

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Top best famous clever quotes of all time

  1. “A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.”–  Lucille Ball
  2. “A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.” –  Carl Von Linne
  3. “Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. –  Francis Bacon”Anger
  4. “Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.” –  Mark Haddon
  5. “Broken Irish is better than clever English.” –  Irish Proverb
  6. “Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.” –  Kerry E. Wagner
  7. “Computers and the internet have made us faster but they do not make us smarter.” –  Steven Levi, Off The Wall Thinking
  8. “Creativity is the catalyst for brilliant accomplishments, but it is also the greatest obstacle.” –  Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen
  9. “Don’t bother about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust in hard work, perseverance, and determination.” – Frederick Treves Work
  10. “Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  11. “More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.” –  Charlie Chaplin
  12. “Not being able to recognize our lifelong dreams is like not being able to recognize that we are alive.” –  David A. Hunter, How To Find Your Passion
  13. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” –  Henry Ford
  14. “They whom frequent failures have made desperate, cease to form resolutions, and they who are become cunning, do not tell them.” – Samual Johnson
  15. “Where you start is not as important as where you finish.” –  Zig Ziglar
  16. “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  17. “A grieving woman could sit alone on a jetty in the early morning. But not with a book in her hands.” – Pia Juul
  18. “A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.” – Ljupka Cvetanova
  19. “A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.”– Michael Bassey Johnson
  20. “A person with a sharp tongue will eventually cut themselves.”– J. Robson Koenig
  21. “A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being ‘frank’.”– Robert Heinlein
  22. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”– Len Wein
  23. “A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”– Doug Larson
  24. “A witty saying proves nothing.”– Voltaire
  25. “A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”– George Dennison Prentice
  26. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”– William James
  27. “Action will destroy your procrastination.”– Og Mandino
  28. “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”– Adlai E. Stevenson
  29. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  30. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”– Abraham Lincoln
  31. “Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”– Doris M. Smith
  32. “Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.”– Oliver Goldsmith
  33. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” – William Shakespeare
  34. “By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”– Robert Frost
  35. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”– Confucius
  36. “Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”– William Congreve
  37. “Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”– Ralph Charell
  38. “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  39. “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”– Howard Aiken
  40. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”– John C. Maxwell
  41. “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”– Erma Bombeck
  42. “Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
  43. “Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”– Criss Jami
  44. “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”– John Kenneth Galbraith
  45. “Fools learn from experience. Wise men learn from the experience of others.”– Otto von Bismarck
  46. “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find a good one, you must one hundred try.”– Claude Mermet
  47. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”– Thomas Alva Edison
  48. “He wasn’t aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn’t smile he didn’t look amiable.”– Emma Goldrick
  49. “He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.”– Edmund Burke
  50. “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  51. “I don’t let go of concepts –I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.”– Byron Katie
  52. “I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.”– Woodrow Wilson
  53. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”– Abraham Maslow
  54. “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.”– David Livingstone
  55. “I’m an angel. The horns are only there to hold up the halo.”– Suzanne Wrightt
  56. “If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.”– Amit Kalantri
  57. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”– Mark Twain
  58. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”– Woodrow Wilson
  59. “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”– Woody Allen
  60. “Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.”– Amit Kalantri
  61. “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”– George Washington
  62. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”– Charles Darwin
  63. “It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”– Helen Walton
  64. “It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.”– Walter Linn
  65. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”– John Leonard
  66. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”– Tom Robbins
  67. “It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”– Ronald Reagan
  68. “Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.”– William Cowper
  69. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”– Robert J. Sawyer
  70. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”– George Bernard Shaw
  71. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”– Soren Kierkegaard
  72. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”– Confucius
  73. “Maturity involves turning an insult into a feedback.”– Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
  74. “Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.” – Lord Byron
  75. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”– Benjamin Disraeli
  76. “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”– Will Rogers
  77. “Never try to have the last word. You might get it.”– Robert Heinlein
  78. “No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
  79. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”– William James
  80. “Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? Certainly. I’d know me anywhere.”– Terry Pratchett
  81. “One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”– Robert Heinlein
  82. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”– Rita Mae Brown
  83.  “Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”– Sarah Ban Breathnach
  84. “Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an expert.”– Dennis Sharpe
  85. “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”– George Eliot
  86. “Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.”– Miguel Queah
  87. “She has all of the virtues I despise, and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
  88.  “Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.”– Kim Hubbard
  89. “The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”– Robert Brault
  90.  “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”– Abraham Lincoln
  91. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”– Richard P. Feynman
  92. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.”– Elbert Hubbard
  93. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”– Wayne Dyer
  94. “The important thing to remember is not to forget.”– Benny Bellamacina
  95.  “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.”– Mark Twain
  96. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  97. “The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.”– Michelangelo
  98. “The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.”– Josh Lanyon
  99. “The reward of a thing done well is to have done it.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
  100. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”– Bertrand Russell
  101. “There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn’t exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.”– Christian Louboutin
  102. “There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.”– William M. Bulger
  103. “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done.”– Peter Drucker
  104. “They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.”– Allan Sherman
  105. “To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.”– John Ruskin
  106. “To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”– Erich Fromm
  107. “To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”– Winston Churchill
  108. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”– Oscar Wilde
  109. “Want to know something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It’s really worth fighting for — risking everything for. And the trouble is — if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”– Erica Jong
  110. “We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all.”– Daniel Cohen
  111. “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”– Anais Nin
  112. “We tend to get what we expect.”– Norman Vincent Peale
  113. “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”– Suzanne Collins
  114. “What gets measured gets managed.”– Peter Drucker
  115. “When I die cremate me so I can finally fit into something small.”– Xondra Day
  116. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”– Henry Ford
  117. “Writers don’t get mad they get even in their novels.”– Candace C. Bowen
  118. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”– Henry Ford
  119. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”– Wayne Dyer
  120. “You know, you’re rather amusingly wrong.”– Terry Pratchett

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