Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

James Woods

Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.

Jason Alexander

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

Janet Jackson

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

John Avlon

Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.

Leon Trotsky

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.

Bryant H. McGill

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

Carroll O'Connor

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Carson McCullers

Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

Alan Keyes

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Alan Cumming

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Alain de Botton

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

Al Gore

Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.

Al Gore

It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

Al Gore

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

Al Gore

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Al Gore

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Al Gore

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Charles Barkley

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

Breckin Meyer

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Bradley Whitford

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Bono

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Bobby Fischer

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

Arthur Schopenhauer

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Arthur Schopenhauer

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Aristophanes

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.