I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
I think being nice is more important than being clever.
Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
