Parenting Quote by Shelly Laurenston

“His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Mother: “He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I’d still get something out of it. I guess that’s…

— Eula Biss

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they…

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

“and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“His quiet confidence in his authority and abilities left him free to treat everyone around him with calm respect.”

— T E Kinsey

“He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity…

— Will Schwalbe

“I've never known my mother to be wrong. About anything. So at this moment, her opinion is my most valuable resource.”

— Emma Chase

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.”

— Marcel Proust

“His gibberish sounds intellectual enough to make some people feel like agreeing with him makes them look smart.”

— Aaron J. Ethridge