Subject: Intelligence (Page 39)

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

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

If “sense” is so common, how come we don’t see more of it around?

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

(1806-1873) British philosopher

If you talk about yourself, he’ll think you’re boring; if you talk about others, he’ll think you’re a gossip; if you talk about him, he’ll think you’re a brilliant conversationalist.

Sam: Have you noticed that, uh… somebody in this bar is getting a little loony?

Frasier: Sam, everyone in this bar is on a connecting flight to beyond loony.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Everything looks bad if you remember it.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

(1873 – 1945) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

There is only one difference between a madman and me – the madman thinks he is sane… I know I am mad.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

I've never been an intellectual, but I have this look.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

What some people lack in intelligence, they more than make up for stupidity.

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

(1844 – 1924) French novelist

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

(1533 – 1592) French writer

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

When the Iraq war started … little did George Bush know.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

We all are born mad; some remain so.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist