re: #172 austin_blue

Did some gender changes…

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
- - - Alexander Pope

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
- - - Tom Waits

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- - - Alexander Pope

Did you eat a brain tumor for breakfast?
- - - from “Heathers”

Differently clued.
- - - Dave Clark

End of season sale at the cerebral department.
- - - Gareth Blackstock

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.
- - - David Letterman

She can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any woman I know.
- - - Abraham Lincoln

She has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
- - - Robert Redford

She has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
- - - Billy Wilder

She is brilliant - to the top of her boots.
- - - David Lloyd George

She is so stupid you can’t trust her with an idea.
- - - John Steinbeck

She is useless on top of the ground; she aught to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
- - - Mark Twain

She knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
- - - Joseph Heller

She knows nothing and thinks she knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- - - George Bernard Shaw

She knows so little and knows it so fluently.
- - - Ellen Glasgow

She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
- - - Forrest Tucker

She may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. She really is an idiot.
- - - Groucho Marx

She never chooses an opinion; she just wears whatever happens to be in style.
- - - Leo Tolstoy

She not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
- - - Sydney Smith

She thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
- - - John Ruskin

She uses statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
- - - Andrew Lang

I love disses. Some people like those you quoted above turn it in to an art form. I always liked Churchill’s quote on Clem Attlee who I actually ironically like more than Winston himself but it was “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” That doesn’t apply to Palin here tho.