Famous Quotes & Sayings

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Wendy Hiller

When youre young, youre stupid.

Virginia Graham

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

Virginia Foxx

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

W. H. Auden

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

William Congreve

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

Upton Sinclair

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

Tyra Banks

Love is an excuse to be stupid

Ty Burrell

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.

Ty Cobb

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Twyla Tharp

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

William H. Gass

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

Warren Zevon

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.

Warren Zevon

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Stephenie Meyer

Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!

Stephen Colbert

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!

Thomas B. Macaulay

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

Thomas B. Macaulay

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Thomas Bernhard

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

Rebecca Ferguson

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

Ville Valo

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Victoria Legrand

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

Victor Davis Hanson

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Victor Davis Hanson

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

Russell Means

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

Ronald Knox

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.

Romano Prodi

Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.

Roger Federer

The nicer the point, the more -- the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.

Sally Phillips

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.