“My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.” JobsMotherValuesOpportunityNicePlansCollegeSmartFellowsAdvertisingSuitsAvenuesMy FutureMadisonMadison Avenue Author:George Carlin
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!” PeopleKnowsMenFunnyHateSmartI HateFellowsCleverSarcasticLost LoveFellow ManCute LoveHate PeopleI Hate LoveI Hate People Author:Tom Lehrer
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” ChildrenBeautifulReligionSpiritualityReligiousFreedomWifeAtheismTheorySmartRespectFellowsAtheistIntelligenceCynicalAtheisticPhilosophy Of ReligionTheismPhilosophy And ReligionGod DelusionCurmudgeonGreatest AtheistDaily AtheistMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken
“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” WorldI CanPoliticalPoliticsSmartPicksFellowsIntelligenceInsightfulColleaguesFunny Business Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.” KnowsMenBelieveWholeFallTakenPiecesDogMonthsSmartFellowsMalesWhole LifeUnhappyCardsNonsenseRagsFlogging Author:Ivan Turgenev
“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.” KnowsPersonsCertainMistakeKnow HowStupidPossibilityTypeSmartFellowsErrorsCleverBoundlessIdiocyStupid Person Book:Iorich Source: Iorich
“Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.” WayGamesWinningLosesBoysSmartFellowsVariousCleverHolesCardsNutsCaps Author:Sholom Aleichem
“Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.” FirstsI CanGuyHonestStupidHonestySmartFellowsStupiditySillyOther GuysCrooked Author:Lewis Blaine Hershey
“'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.” ThinkingCountryAmericaYoungUsedFatherGrowsGrowing UpDoubtTeacherNew YorkLike YouDadSmartDoctorsBaseballScientistFellowsMy DadLawyerNo DoubtBusinessmanYankeesNew York Yankees Author:Joe Lieberman
“I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.” GivingBelieveI BelieveChristianityDegreesSmartFellowsCreditImprovementDepartmentCatholicismJudaismInnovatorsProtestantismMormonismJoseph SmithPolytheism Author:Thomas Ferguson
“The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.” WellsChristianSinMoralGreaterStupidSeriousFoolSmartFellowsNotionFollySinnerCarelessScrutiny Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer