Subject: Intelligence (Page 8)

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country… and we haven’t seen them since.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

(1892 – 1970) American writer

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

American baseball player

Germs attack people where they're weakest – which is why there are so many head colds.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.


Put it out of your mind; in no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

(1918 – 1996) U.S. vice president & politician

Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.

(1911 – 1980) humorist, writer, television host & journalist

It’s difficult to remember when you haven’t played it before.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

(1820 – 1903) English philosopher

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor

Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.

He don't know shit from peach butter.