He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.


On Kippis; Gregory's Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Robert Hall Quotes

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.