Subject: Intelligence (Page 30)

He’s got more dollars than cents.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

I do try to fight ignorance and stereotypes and racism with karate – like the Asians do.

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

American entrepreneur & author

We all are born mad; some remain so.

(1906 –1989) Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director & poet

You can always tell when a man’s well-informed… his views are pretty much like yours.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Well, I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

(1930 – ) American politician

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

You don't have to be a Harvard professor to manage baseball; in fact, I think you're better off having an IQ like mine.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Intelligent conversationalist: One who nods his head in agreement while you’re talking.

If brains were all that important in a beauty contest, you could enter wearing a Hefty Bag.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

I am in the prime of senility.

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

Where ignorance is bliss, it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

(1894 – 1986) British prime minister