Quotes
Quotes about Idiots
Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,
White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow! 'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash, And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises, The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt, That gulls the easy creditor!
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
