A Quote by Ogden Nash

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
American - Poet
August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Donald A. Norman

Too clever is dumb.

Ogden Nash

If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

Richard Thaler

There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.

Hal Higdon

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.

Craig Ferguson

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Patricia Ireland

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

Robert H. Frank

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

Sam Altman

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

Daniel H. Wilson

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.