Subject: Intelligence (Page 47)

Sure I've got one; it's a perfect twenty-twenty.

American football player

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

I once dated a guy so dumb he could not count to 21 unless he was naked.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

It’s easy to smile when you have a squirrel’s intellect.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

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

(1894 – 1986) British prime minister

She looked at me like a cow looking at a new gate.

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

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

The less a person knows, the more he wants to tell it.

A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

(1592 – 1644) English writer

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

(1914 – ) American comic & actor

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet