Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Ian MacKaye

I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

Ian Gillan

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

Hugh Laurie

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Homer

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

Homer

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

Homer

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

Honore de Balzac

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

Honore de Balzac

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Hassan Rouhani

Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have all the diplomatic and rhetoric skills to do so.

Harvey Pekar

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

James D. Watson

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

James D. Watson

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

James Blunt

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

James Blunt

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

James Blunt

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

Jacques Barzun

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jackie Chan

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

Isaac Marion

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Isaac Marion

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Isaac Asimov

It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

Paul Goodman

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.

Paul Goodman

Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.

Paul Auster

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Patrick Marber

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.