Subject: Intelligence (Page 31)

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

A fool and his money is a friend indeed.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The cure for boredom is curiosity; there is no cure for curiosity.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

(1917 –1986) American journalist

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

(1891 – 1941) Canadian physician & physiologist

You’ve got the brain of a four year old boy… and I’ll bet he was glad to get rid of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

(1863 – 1941) U.S. senator (California) & U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

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

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

(1938 – 2007) British writer

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

(1950 – ) English broadcaster, journalist & author

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

(1885 – 1972) expatriate American poet & critic

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

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

She's a vacuum with nipples.

(1905 – 1986) Austro–Hungarian-American theater & film director

My girlfriend said she wanted me to dominate her; so I said, “OK, let’s play Scrabble.”

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian