Idiot Quotes

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Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Life is a tale told by an idiot - - Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
Great men are not always idiots.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali, from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13 - 14
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Tuppe
Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots.
Miriam Defensor Santiago, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Unknown
Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
H. L. Mencken
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.
John Guerrero
Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.
Billy Madison
The law is sic a ass - A idiot.
Charles Dickens
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
George Carlin
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
What do you take me for, an idiot.
Charles De Gaulle
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.
Arabic Prove
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Horace Mann
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.
Terry Pratchett
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
William Dukane
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Ke
Idiots... nothing can live forever.
Magus Dactylus, Chronotrigge
How could I lose to such an idiot?
A shout from chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook