Subject: Intelligence » Mind

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1929 – ) American writer

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

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.


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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

I am in the prime of senility.

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

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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

(1928 – 1982) American novelist, short story writer & essayist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

English former football player & manager

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

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

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

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer