He has more guts than brains. [ Proverb ]
The head grey, and no brains yet. [ Proverb ]
It needs brains to be a real fool. [ George MacDonald ]
The brains do not lie in the beard. [ Proverb ]
The mob has many heads, but no brains. [ Proverb ]
Stern men with empires in their brains. [ Lowell ]
Idle brains are the devil's workhouses. [ Proverb ]
Dull, conceited hashes,
Confuse their brains in college classes;
They gang in stirks, and come oot asses,
Plain truth to speak. [ Burns ]
When God endowed human beings with brains,
He did not intend to guarantee them. [ Montesquieu ]
His brains want no barm to make them work. [ Proverb ]
Beard was never the true standard of brains. [ Fuller ]
Let not your tongue run away with your brains. [ Proverb ]
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. [ Churchill ]
Oh, rare the headpiece, if but brains were there! [ Phaedrus ]
The brains of a pedant, however fall, are vacant. [ Greville ]
Your head is so hot that your brains bubble over. [ Proverb ]
I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains. [ Johnson ]
You will not believe him bald, till you see his brains. [ Proverb ]
Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. [ W. B. Clulow ]
He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass. [ Proverb ]
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. [ Joubert ]
Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains, for he had none. [ William Shakespeare ]
You will not believe a man is dead, till you see his brains out. [ Proverb ]
He is sillier than a crab, that has all his brains in his belly. [ Proverb ]
Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart. [ Haliburton ]
Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. [ Roosevelt ]
It has been very truly said that the mob has many beads, but no brains. [ Rivarol ]
That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work. [ Donn Piatt ]
O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]
The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion. [ Proverb ]
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. [ Schelling ]
Superstitions, errors, and prejudices are cobwebs continually woven in shallow brains. [ De Finod ]
Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill'd with calves' brains without any sage in them. [ Webster ]
Rivals who blow out each other's brains for the eyes of a coquette, prove that they have no brains. [ A. Ricard ]
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. [ Emerson ]
When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ O. W. Holmes ]
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. [ Coleridge ]
Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. [ A. de Gasparin ]
What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason. [ Terence ]
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. [ F. Osborn ]
There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. [ John Ruskin ]
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. [ Horace Mann ]
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]
The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]
Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]