Stupid Quotes - Page 107

Do you have blacks, too?

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years - you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can't imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things. Leave it out, and you've got an incomplete world.

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

Hooray for most things!

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.