40 Best Idiot Quotes and Sayings – Quotes about Fools & Idiot
Idiot Quotes and Sayings
“Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.” ―Katharine Hepburn
“To generalize is to be an idiot.” ―William Blake
“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.” ―Brigitte Bardot
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” ―John Lennon
“You can’t make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.” ―Ron Burns
“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot.” ―Leo Durocher
“Any idiot can face a crisis, it’s day to day living that wears you out.” ―Anton Chekhov
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.” ―Steven Wright
“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.” ―Gustave Flaubert
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.” ―Mark Twain
“I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.” ―Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.” ―Louis Aragon
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” ―Rebecca West
“Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.”
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.” ―Mark Twain
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” ―Johann Sebastian Bach
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ―Sarah Cook
“Avoid and ignore the idiots who try to bring you down in life; they are not worth your time.” ―Ken Poirot
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.” ―Horace Mann
“Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.” ―Peter Lynch
“When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can’t do that much longer.” ―Joan Van Ark
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.” ―William Blake
“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
“I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you’re an idiot.” ―Calvin Harris
“Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.” ―Adam Duritz
“I’m just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.” ―Barry Diller
Quotes about Fools and Idiot
“A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.” ―Elizabeth I
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” ―Douglas MacArthur
“It’s better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.” ―Oliver Gaspirtz
“Always remember, rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.” ―Ziad K. Abdelnour
“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.” ―Anatole France
“An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.” ―Hillaire Belloc
“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
“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
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” ―Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.” ―Sean Connery
“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
“On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.” ―Erma Bombeck