Subject: Intelligence (Page 19)

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If you only read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

(1967 – ) English comedian

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child; just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

I had amnesia… once or twice.


Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity and I have erased this line.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

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

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Creativity: The sudden cessation of stupidity.

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

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

(1948 – ) English rock vocalist & songwriter

The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.


The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.