Subject: Intelligence (Page 14)

One who has a clear conscience has a foggy memory.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

(1934 – ) writer & editor

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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

(1873 – 1945) journalist & author

I can read minds but, it’s pointless cause I’m illiterate.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Smart as a tree full of owls.

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

Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get into office.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

He is so dumb, blondes tell jokes about him.

Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.

I had to go back to New York recently for a family reunion… I walk in there, I look at everyone, and I think: 'I'm getting my tubes tied; that's it; the tree ends here.'

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over.


Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

It’s easy to smile when you have a squirrel’s intellect.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

That's why we in shock as a country 'cause we went from a president that would make up words to a president that make us look up the words when he talks.

(1971 – ) American comedian & actress

Most minds are like concrete… all mixed up and permanently set!

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

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician