Quotations about Intelligence

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
~Alexander Pope


There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold


Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce


Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel


A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters


The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand


Primitive does not mean stupid. ~Author Unknown


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

Quotations about Cheerleading

Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first. ~Author Unknown


I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~Author Unknown


There is only one way to cheer - hard! ~Author Unknown


One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. ~Author Unknown


Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly. ~Author Unknown


Cheerleading is more than a sport; it's an attitude. ~Author Unknown


I don't play the field - I rule the sidelines. ~Author Unknown

Washington Irving~Nice Smiles Sayings

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
~Author : Washington Irving~Nice Smiles Sayings

Laughter is the cheapest tonic and vacation. It stirs the blood, exercises the chest, stimulates the nerves, chases grief, fear and wrath, wins friends, cures the blues, and gives all a cleansing rehabilitation.
~Author : smiley~meaningful Happiness Quotes

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone
~Author : Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel~Nice Graduation Sayings

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
~Author : Erica Jong~meaningful Feminism Quotes

The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
~Author : Mark Twain~Nice Clothing Sayings

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~Author : Eleanor Roosevelt~meaningful Happiness Quotes

He conquers who endures.
~Author : Persius~Nice Perseverance Sayings

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
~Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau~meaningful Philosophy Quotes

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
~inspirational messages of growing children by James Hastings

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope
~saying on Fathers Day by Bill Cosby

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
~inspirational messages of growing children by Christopher Morley

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did
~messages of growing children by Walt Bagehot

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
~sayings about messages of growing children by Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
~quotes about Cats by Jeff Valdez

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
~inspirational messages of growing children by Matthew Arnold

I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
~messages of growing children by Benito Perez Galdos

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~sayings about messages of growing children by Anatole France

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
~quotes about Carpe Diem by Samuel Johnson

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~inspirational messages of growing children by Jean Paul Richter

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
~saying on Charm by Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Oscar Wilde~meaningful Birth Quotes

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
~Author : Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball~meaningful Basketball Quotes

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Patriotic Sayings

Your best protection from your enemies is to make them your friends.
~Author : ~meaningful Friendship Quotes

Love is what you've been through with somebody
~Author : James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960~Nice Valentine's Day Sayings

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
~Author : Oscar Wilde~meaningful Birth Quotes

Art is a kind of illness.
~Author : Giacomo Puccini~Nice Art Sayings

The happiest hours of mankind are recorded on the blank pages of history.
~Author : Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great~meaningful History Quotes

Woodrow Wilson~meaningful Patriotic Quotes

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation
~Author : Woodrow Wilson~meaningful Patriotic Quotes

Children are all foreigners.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson~Nice Family Sayings

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
~Author : Fred Allen~meaningful Food Quotes

When you eat, don't speak because you're fighting with death
~Author : Italian~Nice Italian Sayings Sayings

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
~Author : Robert Herrick~meaningful Adversity Quotes

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~Author : John Leonard~Nice History Sayings

No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~Author : W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961~meaningful Music Quotes

Eugene O'Neill~meaningful Happiness Quotes

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
~Author : Eugene O'Neill~meaningful Happiness Quotes

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
~Author : Albert Camus~Nice Humankind Sayings

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Author : Elizabeth Bowen~meaningful Jealousy Quotes

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~Nice Birds Sayings

Men may come, men may go, but I go on forever
~Author : ~meaningful Attitude Quotes

I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Women's Greetings Sayings

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~Author : Author Unknown~meaningful Vanity Quotes

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude
~Author : E.P. Powell~Nice Thanksgiving Day Sayings

Odell Shepherd~meaningful Wise Words Quotes

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
~Author : Odell Shepherd~meaningful Wise Words Quotes

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone
~Author : Fred Small~Nice Love Quotes Sayings

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Author : Eric Berne~meaningful Birds Quotes

Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Very True Sayings

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
~Author : John Milton~meaningful Halloween Quotes

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
~Author : William Faulkner~Nice Perfection Sayings

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
~Author : Frank Crane~meaningful Trust Quotes

Groucho Marx~meaningful Famous Saying Quotes

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
~Author : Groucho Marx~meaningful Famous Saying Quotes

Guard well your thought; the soon become acts. Guard well your acts; they soon become habits. Guard well your habits; they shape your character, your career and your fortunes.
~Author : ~Nice Maturing Altruistically Sayings

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~Author : Norman Podhoretz~meaningful Imagination Quotes

Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
~Author : Vivian Mercer~Nice Dreams Sayings

Anything simple always interests me.
~Author : David Hockney~meaningful Simplicity Quotes

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
~Author : Jeff Pesis~Nice Computers Sayings

The word wilderness occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
~Author : René Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980~meaningful Environment Quotes

Red Buttons~meaningful Parenting Quotes

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
~Author : Red Buttons~meaningful Parenting Quotes

The earth has grown old with its burden of care,But at Christmas it always is young.
~Author : Phillips Brooks~Nice Christmas Sayings

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
~Author : Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien~meaningful Birds Quotes

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
~Author : Honoré de Balzac, Scnes de la vie Parisienne, La Maison Nucingen, 1838~Nice Jobs Sayings

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
~Author : Calvin~meaningful Sleep Quotes

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven
~Author : Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928~Nice Arbor Day Sayings

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
~Author : Irene Claremont de Castillejo~meaningful Chakras Quotes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~Author : Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights~Nice Mistakes Sayings

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
~Author : Author Unknown~meaningful Confidence Quotes