Subject: Intelligence » Stupidity (Page 4)

He is so stupid… he got fired from an M&M factory for throwing out all the W's.

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? … I'm just noting the timing, here.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

(1913 – 1960) French-Algerian author, philosopher & journalist

It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is sheer foolishness, because it has suited the majority.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally have been so very stupid.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

You can't fix stupid; there’s not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

The boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

(1863 – 1941) U.S. senator (California) & U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

I tell you boy, the wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

(1962 – ) American ventriloquist & stand-up comedian

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I was at a party a couple of weeks ago, talking to this guy about the Gaza Strip; he thought it was the adhesive side of a maxi pad.

(1961 – ) comedian, writer, radio & television personality & blogger

Only one percent of the oil pollution in the sea is the result of oil drilling, while 63 percent is the result of natural seepage on the ocean floor.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other.