#lever

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#clever #woman #beauty

Civilization begins with distillation ↗

— William Faulkner

#clever #faulkner #funny #funny

Why is abbreviation such a long word? ↗

— Teresa Monachino

#funny #teresa-monachino #wordplay #words-fail-me #funny

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #courageous #crazy #death #definition

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. ↗

— Holly Black

#con #devil #lie #sexy #wit

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#loyalty #loyalty

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#balloon #clever #desire #going #helium

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#clever #dive #focus #funny #get