#lever

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#force #friends #lever #make #up

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#clever #enough #good #i #idea

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#clever #hated #his #man #more

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #direction #gone #into #ironic

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

Age of the geek, baby, we rule the world! ↗

— Alec Hardison

#age

Age of the geek, baby! ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#catchphrase #geek #leverage #age

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people #death

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

There Are Two Typos Of People In This World: Those Who Can Edit And Those Who Can’t ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#editing #funny #people #typo #world