Subject: Intelligence » Mind

I ain’t in a happy frame of mood.

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

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

I am in the prime of senility.

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

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

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

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

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

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

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

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

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

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

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

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.


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

(1846 – 1924) British idealist philosopher

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

The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!