Subject: Intelligence » Mind

He] had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

(1948 – ) English novelist

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

(1919 – ) American poet, painter & liberal activist

Just imagine what he’ll be like when senility kicks in… if it hasn’t already.

English former football player & manager

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

(1928 – 1982) American novelist, short story writer & essayist

I am in the prime of senility.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Pain: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

(1929 – ) American writer

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter

They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older; what they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it much.


He would come in and say he changed his mind… which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

If most people said what’s on their minds, they’d be speechless.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine