Subject: Intelligence (Page 12)

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

There are four things that hold back human progress – ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

(1797 – 1875) American accountant

Evil and stupidity are randomly distributed.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can't remember what the third thing is.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Do not argue with an idiot; he/she will drag you down to his/her level and beat you with experience.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

(1942 – ) English politician

A fool and his money are soon married.

(1862 – 1942) American author & poet

The boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

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

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.

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane.

(1933 – 1967) English playwright

If brains was lard, Jethro couldn't grease a pan.

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer