Subject: Intelligence (Page 2)

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

You get the feeling that Dan Quayle's golf bag doesn't have a full set of irons?

(1925 – 2005) television host

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Who’s cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

(1902 – 1968) novelist

If idiots could fly, this would be an airport.

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

All my life I’ve wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

American writer

There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

(1908 – 2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.

White Supremacists: The most convincing argument against the theory of white racial superiority.

People say it’s easy to make fun of retarded people, but it’s not… you really have to explain it to them.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

He's as big as a gorilla and as strong as a gorilla; if he was as smart as a gorilla he'd be fine.

college football coach

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

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Statistics are no substitute for common sense.

Personally, I’m waiting for caller IQ.

(1955 – ) American comedian, singer, actress & author

It's a scientific fact; for every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

(1924 – 1984) American author

Everything can be solved through civilized dialogue and implied agony.

online cartoonist

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer