Ask yourself what makes them seem clever: do they have a pithy comment about everything?
The chinaSMACK website reported a microblogger who greeted the earthquake with the pithy remark: "Splendid!" A blogger in Taiwan an assistant to a member of parliament criticised donations to Japan, and indulged in racist abuse of Japanese "dogs".
In a subtle way, Einstein's pithy remark seems to recognize the internal struggle between reason and intuition that wrestle out our individual beliefs.
In one pithy remark, Thomas, an introspective 13-year-old absorbed with his retriever Fred, suggested some of the mistrust the children come in feeling toward bipeds like us.
It's hard to imagine anyone under, say, 30 perceiving it as anything other than a pithy, literal remark.
Apparently he's known throughout the National Post as the Grandmaster Flash of the pithy remark.
Another pithy remark that gained press attention, from critic Lloyd Skinner, was that the fountain was "Stonehenge, unhinged, with plumbing troubles".
In the evil Goneril's pithy remark, she might have wished to hasten Lear's demise, but Lear was also at fault -- overly desiring love and admiration to the point of infantilism.
In addition to quotidian details, political commentary and descriptions of notable events, readers will find a variety of pithy remarks here.
