What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.133^8.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs11:15.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would someday graduate from Canada.

-Fulford, Robert
  'Notebook', in Saturday Night, Oct.

   Mitterrand has100 lovers.One has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one.Bush has100 bodyguards.One is a terrorist, but he doesn't know which one.Gorbachev has100 economic advisers.One issmart, but he doesn't know which one.

-Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
  In the Sunday Times, 9 Dec.

Smarter than most of his colleagues in theTruman cabinet, but not smart enough to hide it.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  Of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Deadline.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.