Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

Vincent Kartheiser

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

Vincent Kartheiser

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

Walter Martin

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

Voltaire

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Voltaire

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

William Least Heat-Moon

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

William Kennedy

Anger makes people stupid.

Yogi Berra

Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

Winston Churchill

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Vinnie Jones

Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Yanni

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

Wiz Khalifa

Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks.

Winston Churchill

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Wilson Pickett

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

Will Rogers

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

Zola Jesus

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Zach Galifianakis

But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

Zach Galifianakis

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

Zara Phillips

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Zach Braff

Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

Zhuangzi

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

William Hazlitt

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Wendell Berry

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Warren Beatty

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.