Idiot Quotes

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Congress, Repeat, Member

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

Crisis, Living, Face

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Poor

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

Anyone, Anybody, Driving

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

Great, Woman, Behind

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

God, School, Made

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

Congress, Repeat, Reader

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche

End, Bad, Someone

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

Wife, Dreamer, Thinker

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Between, Fishing, Line

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mistakes, Error, Persists

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Great, Men, Genius

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

Perfect, Acting, Profession

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

Smart, Stupid, Give

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

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Around, Happens

To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Men, Care, Made

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

Woman, Young, Rose

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
Ann Coulter

Age, Either, Liberal

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

Mean, Used, Word

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

Wise, Cannot, Despicable

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams

Nothing, Dangerous

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

Art, Become, Aspire

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard

Good, Someone, Two

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
Ben Kingsley

Love, Making, Loved

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar

Genius, Three, Guy

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon

Famous, Easy, Talent

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
Hugh Leonard

Life, Change, Time

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick

Pity, Village, Idealist

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