The Idiot Quotes

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.

Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

Of course you have an e-mail, you idiot, just read it!

Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.

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

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

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

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!