Subject: Intelligence (Page 18)

Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.

(1875 – 1957) stockbroker & man of letters

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.

These guys from the nation's capital… now they do a lot of thinking.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Baseball is dull only to those with dull minds.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

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

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

British clerk of the House of Commons

She’s so stupid… if you give her a penny for her thoughts, you'll get change back.

If you make something idiot-proof, the world will create a better idiot.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

(1918 – 2002) American baseball player

I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.

(1921 – 2001) Welsh comedian & singer

Put it out of your mind; in no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

(1948 – ) English novelist

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.

I am in the prime of senility.

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

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

She reminds me of Paul Revere's ride – a little light in the belfry.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)