Subject: Intelligence » Mind (Page 2)

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

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

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.


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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

English former football player & manager

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

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

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

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

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

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

(1853 – 1890) Dutch painter

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1788 – 1824) English poet

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