#lever

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #clever #differences #everyone #funny

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#clever #i #i am #saying #single

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#clever #never #option #our #policy

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. ↗

— Tony Randall

#clever #publicity #sell #stunt #tickets

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#change #franklin #franklin roosevelt #great #how

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#clever #healthy #idea #illness #making

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#good #maid #sweet #who #will

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#clever man #fool #man #manage #needs

It's clever, but is it Art? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#clever