Belief gets in the way of learning.
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.