Van Clever Quotes & Sayings

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated. — Arthur Koestler

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. — Stephenie Meyer

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death. — William Shakespeare

I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. — David Byrne

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. — William Cowper

Gotta have my make up, in case I run into Joey and he wants to beat the shit out of me. Gotta look my best! Maybe he'll punch me repeatedly in the kidneys and the stomach so it doesn't mark up my face. He's so thoughtful! — George Carlin

Labor is the law of happiness. — Abel Stevens

If any one thinks I am unfaithful to human fact, and overcharge the description of this child, I on my side doubt the extent of the experience of that man or woman. I admit the child a rarity, but a rarity in the right direction, and therefore a being with whom humanity has the greater need to be made acquainted. I admit that the best things are the commonest, but the highest types and the best combinations of them are the rarest. There is more love in the world than anything else, for instance; but the best love and the individual in whom love is supreme are the rarest of all things. — George MacDonald

Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking. — Menna Van Praag