Subject: Intelligence (Page 44)

These guys from the nation's capital… now they do a lot of thinking.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

You ever drive around with an old person who knows where everything didn't used to be?

American stand-up comedian

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

Now there's a man with an open mind – you can feel the breeze from here!

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

The trouble isn’t that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn’t distributed right.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A middling mind always benefits from a lack of competition.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

I think the Japanese are smart people – stereotypically so.

(1982 – ) American stand-up comedian

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Most people don't act stupid: it's the real thing!

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

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature; and another woman to help him forget them.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

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

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what's between her ears instead of her legs.

(1907 – 2003) American actress of film, stage & television

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

(1956 – ) American lawyer & novelist

I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual, because it has so many syllables in it.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

Psychic: An individual having an uncanny, seemingly supernatural, talent for extracting money from morons.

American author