Stupidity quotes
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"To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished."
"And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes."
"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."
"[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers."
"There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse."
"I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity."
"The earth is a great piece of stupidity."
"People do not read stupidities with impunity."
"Look out! Behind you!"
"If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%."
"I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement"
"It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity."
"...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances."
"Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production."
"I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets."
"If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!"
"She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity."
"There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike."
"A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable."
"In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge."
