#lever

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#attractive #clever #govern #long #men

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#down #enough #find #minister #prime

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cleverness #content #day #display #exists

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ↗

— Stendhal

#fear #few #founded #many #religions

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ↗

— Amy Tan

#clever #enough #i #originality #own

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ↗

— Terence

#common #common sense #grand #grand thing #sense

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty. ↗

— Helen Halstead

#experience

To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons: They'll never get to be swans ↗

— Zoë Marriott

#cool #cute #funny #humor-inspirational #humorous