#lever

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ↗

— Irving Layton

#clever #convince #inferiors #one thing #only

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #brown #clever #dye #hair

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing. ↗

— Bode Miller

#affects #ankle #bends #challenge #crashing

Too clever is dumb. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#dumb #too

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

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game. ↗

— Kevin Nealon

#appreciate #bowl #clever #commercials #entertaining

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#clever people #create #difficulties #fresh #illuminate

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#cleverest #fool #himself #in my opinion #least