Subject: Intelligence » Mind

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

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

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

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

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

(1919 – ) American poet, painter & liberal activist

She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

Sir Stafford has a brilliant mind until it’s made up.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind… or not to have a mind at all; how true that is.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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.


Some people hear voices; some see invisible people; others have no imagination whatsoever.

The Cardinal is at his wit’s end; it is true… that he had not far to go.

(1788 – 1824) English poet

Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Right now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

professional baseball player

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

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

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

(1891 – 1968) American publisher of The New York Times

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

What a waste it is to lose one's mind; or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician