Subject: Intelligence (Page 9)

I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.


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

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

(1688 – 1744) English poet

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

My girlfriend said she wanted me to dominate her; so I said, “OK, let’s play Scrabble.”

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Nature gave man two ends – one to sit on and one to think with; ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

(1867 – 1937) American anti-militarist writer & political activist

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player

Genius: One who can do almost anything except make a living.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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.

A stale mind is the devil’s breadbox.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

He couldn’t find his ass with a flashlight and a roadmap.

It (a cubicle) basically says, like, 'You know what?… we don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.'

(1968 – ) American stand-up comedian

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Homosexuality is God’s way of ensuring that the truly gifted aren’t burdened with children.

comedian, composer & lyricist

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

(1983 – ) American actor, producer, writer & director