Subject: Intelligence (Page 5)

Everything looks bad if you remember it.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer.

(1873 – 1945) journalist & author

Last night I was having dinner with Charles Manson, and in the middle of dinner he turned to me and said, "Is it hot in here, or am I crazy?"

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

(1564 – 1642) Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher & mathematician

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

We all agree your theory is crazy… but is it crazy enough to be true?

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist

Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs!


Psychic: An individual having an uncanny, seemingly supernatural, talent for extracting money from morons.

American author

Sam: Have you noticed that, uh… somebody in this bar is getting a little loony?

Frasier: Sam, everyone in this bar is on a connecting flight to beyond loony.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

You'd think such a little mind would be lonely in such a big head.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish yourself as an expert.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist