Idiot Quotes - Page 6

• First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Firsts, Innovators

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

  Tim Robbins

  Clever, Should Have, Cities

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• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  Randy Cross

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Dream, Wife

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Life, Men, Weak Man

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

  Ann Coulter

  Differences, America, Self

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.28, Crown Forum

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• Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

  Patricia Heaton

  Home, Guy, Life Is

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  Abe Lemons

  Motivational Sports, School, Doctors

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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

  Funny, Art, Believe

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 27, 2011

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• I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

  Michael Moore

  War, Guy, Reason

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Memories, Volume, Repeats

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• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Business, Intelligent

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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

  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

  Gore Vidal

  Village Idiots, Wells, Ifs

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• It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

  James Lileks

  Hate, Mustache, Looks

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• Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Moon, Hair, Two

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• Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fear, Common Sense, Scared

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• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

  Rick Cook

  Winning, Technology, Race

  "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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• A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

  George Eliot

  Fool, Happens

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.329

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• Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence. Only the intelligent ones feel confusion; otherwise the mediocres go on moving in life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you see them you will feel a little jealous; they look so confident, they even look happy.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Moving, Jealous

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

  Jim Butcher

  Village, Somewhere Out There, Deprived

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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