Subject: Intelligence » Mind

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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

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

English former football player & manager

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

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

(1788 – 1824) English poet

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

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

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

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

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!

I told her the thing I loved most about her was her mind… because that's what told her to get into bed with me naked.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher

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

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

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.


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

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

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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

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

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

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

(1929 – ) American writer