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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. | |
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. | |
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. | |
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. | |
Anonymous | The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. | |
Anonymous | If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out. | |
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ) | It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. | |
Barbara Walters | Polysyllablic words are not a sign of intelligence. | |
bj appelgren | questions at curmudgeon-online dot net
This is what your contact us address is and it doesn't work even when translated into questions@curmudgeon-online.net - (anonymous) | |
Bob Martin (1945 - My guess would be soon!) | "Excuse me, but were you born that STUPID, or is it an acquired talent in your case"? - (This should be directed to someone who has just done something which was incredibly stupid. or thoughtless.) | |
Bob Martin (1945 - My guess would be soon!) | "If rat turds were brain cells, you would be a F_____g genius". - (Again, to be quoted to anyone who says or does something incredibly stupid.) | |
Boston baseball fans | We're so used to being disappointed, that if we're not disappointed again this year, we'll be disappointed. | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | |
Frank Perretti | In the absence of intelligence politics will fill the void | |
George Orwell (1903 - 1950) | Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. | |
Henry Adams | There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. | |
Henry David Thoreau | In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. | |
J. D. Hunter (1945 - ) | I quit being disillusioned when I quit being illusioned. - ((unknown self)) | |
Jack G. Montgomery (1953 - ) | The desire for certainty in life, often becomes a fast track to the acceptance of some form of mental or physical tyranny. - (Librarian, Author) | |
Jay Leno (1950 - ) | President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way -- liquored up in a cheap hotel room. | |
John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | The most adversarial adversary intelligence system is always one's own. | |
John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | Just kidding – actually I *am* a robot. | |
John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | An intelligence test measures one's ability to get out of having to take it. | |
Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1996) | There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. | |
Judge Judy | You're not playing with a full deck. You're one can short of a 6-pack. - (to a defendant) | |
Judge Judy | Between the two of them, I don't think they can put together a 3-digit I.Q.
- (about defendants in her courtroom) | |
Miriam Ferguson | If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for Texans.
- (Governor of Texas 1925–1927, brandishing a Bible, responding to the question of using Spanish to teach in public schools having a large number of Mexican immigrant children) | |
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. | |
Penn Jillette | My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. | |
Robert Wilensky | We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards coud produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. | |
Sears & Roebuck | Great for general dirt. - (about a vacuum cleaner) | |
Sidney J. Harris (1917 - 1986) | Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. | |
Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | I may be wrong but I'm never uncertain. | |
Yakov Smirnoff (1951 - ) | The ad in the paper said "Big Sale. Last Week." Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. - (comedian) | |
Yogi Berra | I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. |
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