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" If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should; The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever... "
Critical Path - Page x
by R. Buckminster Fuller - 1981 - 471 pages
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St. Christopher, and Other Poems

Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth - 1890 - 314 pages
...days and days On that one, one look, and abide content. November II, 1881. GOOD AND CLEVER IF all the good people were clever, And all clever people were...it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should ; The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the...
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The Quarterly Record, Volume 1

Massachusetts General Hospital. Nurses Alumnae Association - Nurses - 1911 - 184 pages
...orders and hereafter they may be procured at the hospital for $6 50 each. GOOD AND CLEVER. If all the good people were clever And all clever people were good, The world would be better than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it...
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The Modern Novel: Some Aspects of Contemporary Fiction

Elizabeth A. Drew - American fiction - 1926 - 292 pages
...ARNOLD BENNETT 197 JOSEPH CONRAD 221 A NOTE ON TECHNIQUE 241 INDEX 267 The Plain Reader If all the good people were clever And all clever people were good, The world would be better than ever We thought that it possibly could; But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it...
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Lessons on the way, Volume 3

Percy Dearmer - Christian education - 1928 - 200 pages
...sometimes selfish, and shallow, and troublesome. There is an amusing little rhyme about this: If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were...ever We thought that it possibly could; But somehow it seems that it never Turns out as It should or we would—- The good are so harsh to the clever....
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...1950 Chapter IV, 2 Elizabeth Wordsworth 1840-1932 113 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. Good and Clever William Wordsworth 1770-1850 114 . . .Where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism...
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Text and Thinking: On Some Roles of Thinking in Text Interpretation

Roger G. van de Velde - Computers - 1992 - 356 pages
...is expressed in (11), then it cannot be (the outcome of) a justified interpretation. (11) If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever .... (Elisabeth Wordsworth) § 17 Considerations about the control functions of the semantic-logical...
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Decommissioning, Mothballing, and Revamping

Mike Briggs, Stan Buck, Mike Smith - Business & Economics - 1997 - 180 pages
...into the public domain. These issues are discussed further in Chapters 7-9. 50 6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT 'If all good people were clever, and all clever people...nicer than ever we thought that it possibly could. ' Elizabeth Wordsworth 6.1 INTRODUCTION For a decommissioning project, as for any other type of project,...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...like a rag blown by the wind. WORDSWORTH Dame Elizabeth 1840-1932 12773 'Good and Clever' If all the e whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished...clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double 12774 'The Affliction of Margaret -' My apprehenslons come in crowds; I dread the rustling of the grass:...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...without him: liked it not, and died. WORDSWORTH Dame Elizabeth 18401932 4596 'Good and Clever' If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were...nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. WORKH.C. 1832-1884 4597 'Grandfather's Clock' But it stopped short - never to go again When the old...
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The Natural Superiority of Women

Ashley Montagu - Political Science - 1999 - 340 pages
...Perhaps as Elizabeth Wordsworth, the first principal at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford wrote, If all the good people were clever, And all clever people were...it possibly could. But somehow 'tis seldom or never The two hit it off as they should, The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good!...
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