“ In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. ”
- Steve Martin- Copy
- 2K
“ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ”
- Louis Aragon- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me? ”
- Gwynn Thomas- Copy
- 315
“ The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 1.4K
“ An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark — that is critical genius. ”
- Billy Wilder- Copy
- 2K
“ He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs. ”
- David Borenstein- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.1K
“ There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there's always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the old ones? ”
- Margot Dalton- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. ”
- Peter Lynch- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It takes 50,000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road. ”
- Darryl Somers- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ”
- Walter Kerr- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 4K
“ Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
- 362
“ The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 2.2K
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