Quotes About Mensa

#1. May I remind you, Howard, that mens means "the mind" and mensa means "a table"? But I expect in your case the two things are the same. No, no, don't scratch your head, boy. You'll get splinters.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. I have an IQ that could gain me admission to the damn Mensa Society, but that's not what people see when they look at me. They can't see any of that. They can only see the color of my skin. They see a six-foot-five black man. They see someone they think might be armed and dangerous.

Suzanne Brockmann

#3. I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

Ben Stein

#4. People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

#5. Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

Ashley Rickards

#6. Ah ... now they send Captain Perceptive. I knew there had to be a MENSA candidate in this bunch,

Amber Lynn Natusch

#7. I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

Geena Davis

#8. Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

Dave Barry

#9. That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

#10. To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Yolanda King

#11. Pretty girls don't have ugly mouths.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. Lady Mary came last. She looked magnificent, even regal. Her dress was highly fashionable; dark slate blue overlaid with black fleur-de-lis and stitched with jet beads across the throat and bosom, the sleeves garnered. A black hat adorned her head at a rakish angle, dashing and precarious.

Anne Perry

#13. Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.

Blaise Pascal

#14. Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

Robert Kiyosaki

#15. When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#16. Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Martha Grimes

#17. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G.H. Hardy