(578 quotes found)
“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”
William Shakespeare
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.”
Mae West
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
Tom Robbins
“I swam my brains out.”
Mark Spitz
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'”
David Hume
“If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.”
Greek proverb
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Within the book and volume of my brain.”
