Subject: Intelligence (Page 39)

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

How To Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

If most people said what’s on their minds, they’d be speechless.

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

 Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

college football coach

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

You know how your friends are all morons, and they got the stories wrong all the time?… it’s the same here with the Bible.

(1960 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

(1913 – 1973) American animator & cartoonist (Pogo)

If you understand it, it's obsolete.

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

(1906 – 1992) Canadian-born American academic

I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

(1824 – 1895) French writer

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.


The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

It sounds good on paper.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I told her the thing I loved most about her was her mind… because that's what told her to get into bed with me naked.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist