Quotes of Simpleton - somelinesforyou

“ When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so. ”

- John Donne

“ How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ”

- William Cowper

“ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”

- Mark Twain

“ He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies. ”

- William Wirt

“ The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers. ”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“ So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else. ”

- Martin Luther

“ If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ”

- Rebecca West

“ Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? ”

- Thomas Chalmers

“ When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. ”

- Cynthia Heimel

“ A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! ”

- Kurt Cobain

“ He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot. ”

- Adam Michnik

“ A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. ”

- Horace Mann

“ 'Tis hard if all is false that I advanceA fool must now and then be right, by chance. ”

- William Cowper

“ A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one — they show one another off to the best advantage. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way. ”

- Nia Vardalos
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