To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John Dewey
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy
Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
Randy K. Milholland
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
John Wayne
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
John Wayne
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Heinrich Heine
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell
We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes, ... Late Edition.
Joe Scarborough
This game is definitely tough. Sometimes emotions get high, and people stop thinking and come with late hits, stupid hits.
Joe Yevoli
I think he can have fun with players, but he can also jump their (expletive) when he has to. He'll go up and pat them on the back, but if you make a some stupid, idiotic play or don't hustle, he has no fear of walking down to the end of the bench and letting you know it.
Doug Melvin
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz
Edward Sells, not being stupid, saw the writing on the wall.
Gillian Tindall
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Stanley Baldwin
Those who cannot admit making stupid mistakes are destined to repeat them over and over.
Bill Purdin
Four things were wrong with the way we played. Too many stupid penalties (16 for 51 minutes), too many turnovers by the defense, too many odd-man breaks and too many missed opportunities.
Nick Pollos
He has a party. Russo went out and did something stupid, and Fisher is dead.
Sam Gregory
You get nothing out of helping these people. Your oil is not going to be any cheaper. Your shoes are still going to smell the same, and your sitcoms are going to be just as stupid.
Brian Steidle
We were trying to get him going to the basket and either get a basket or get a foul called, which was probably stupid anyway but turning the corner and going is something he is usually good at.
Derek Thomas
Leslie has the ability to do two things: he can be menacing and scary and he can be incredibly stupid and funny, and he blends them both beautifully. He is a consummate actor-comedian.
Leslie Nielsen
The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas S. Szasz
How stupid can a thief be to go out on a roof where everyone can see him committing the crime?
Vince Hall
Men know everything - all of them- all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin
We know we have to sharpen up a lot. We've got to play smarter and not make stupid passes.
Chris Mccray
It's totally stupid to say that.
Anja Paerson
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
We're really being nice just right now – we'll break them down at registration. But this is really just so they don't feel stupid on the first day.
Peyton Gulley
I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
Justin Hayward
This is the most stupid ... most asinine thing I've ever heard of doing. If this was just some dirt field, that would be different. But this is one of the few facilities in the state that can handle big baseball games. Why tear it down? If you want to tear down something, tear down the Coliseum and build an arena there.
Hill Denson
I thought I probably should have won. I made some stupid mistakes.
Reed Johnson
Stupid bumblers or brilliant conspirators.
Marcia Clark
I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grave. But here I am, typing away as if I had a brain.
Craig Wilson
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill
No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
John Milton
It's the difference between a very stupid bank thief and a very skillful one. It doesn't mean the skillful one will not get caught.
Marvin Miller
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
Robert A. Heinlein
I can also report that it is raining in Victoria and Balham. What we need is some weather control to ensure the rain reaches the Oval. Where's Paul McCartney when you need him? If he zapped a few clouds for a stupid concert he can certainly do the same when there is sporting glory at stake.
Sian Jones
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer
Unleashing cars on high school students who are picnicking peacefully in the sun is really stupid and irresponsible.
Tristan Rouquier
It shut down when we got into the attacking third. We do some stupid things. We've got to work out some kinks and figure that out.
Dave Woolley
I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.
Ray Romano
People don't confess to murders they don't commit. That's stupid.
Steve Mottinger
They don't find teachers who believe in them. They get convinced they are stupid.
Good Will Hunting
He doesn't look very happy and when he's cranky you don't want to talk to him. It's playoffs. Everything is kept secret, even from us, maybe because they don't want players saying something stupid. I know as much as you do.
Darius Kasparaitis
People started sending me mail saying I wasn't paying enough attention to the White Sox. I thought one way to put it to rest was to make a stupid statement.
Jerry Reinsdorf
I'm ignorant, but I'm not stupid. These two [Bittner and Irving] really don't want this to end. It's not about the birds. It's about increasing DVD sales of their film.
John Cowen
We don't want our fans to think we're just stupid goofballs.
Kix Brooks
We're in every game. If we could stop turning the stupid ball over, foul less and make some shots we'd be all right. We just can't get a break.
Tom Billeter
Everything is pretty much as normal for a Boxing Day meet, but support is up, definitely. There's a very resilient feeling - people want to see an end to this stupid act.
Nigel Maidment
The one thing that helps police in most investigations is that criminals do stupid things and we use a lot of skill, a lot of techniques, a lot of technology to assist us in our investigation and being able to make a good prosecutable case, but often times we also run across good fortune for someone doing something very stupid and leaving a good bit of information and evidence for us to track.
Lt. Paul Honeman
I'm certainly not going to make any stupid predictions about winning, but I see no reason why we can't finish in the top eight and score championship points.
Colin Mcrae
I didn't wear one my first year. I was stupid. But when you are 18 years old with beautiful long hair, you want everyone to see it.
Mario Tremblay
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
Dorothy Miller Richardson
Richard Hatch is not a stupid man. He is the world's worst bookkeeper, bar none.
Michael Minns
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
Robbie Coltrane
It never hurts to have it checked out. It's cheaper than recovery. Just don't be stupid and ignore the signs.
Brenda Canaan
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
John W. Gardner
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
Rick Mercer
Nichols heard that he was a suspect, he got scared and he did what a lot of stupid criminals do -- he tried to talk his way out of it.
Scott Robinson
We played some excellent football but then we dropped off too deep and allowed them to put us under pressure. We gave away a stupid goal and it was gutting.
Alessandro Nesta
He's not stupid enough. And he's not the kind of person who says 'I got two, but I'm sending you one. People who work with him will tell you he's a good judge ... but he doesn't keep track of administrative details.
Robert Mcduff
[In short, it's the good economy, stupid.] There is widespread perception that other forces have contributed to the economic recovery, whether it's the New Economy or [Federal Reserve Chairman Alan] Greenspan, ... The challenge for Gore is to make sure his administration gets credit.
Bruce Cain
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
Claus Von Stauffenberg
We came out hard and dominated the game from the first minute on. We just kept pushing forward and didn't take any stupid penalties.
Jochen Hecht
We used to be up against a lot of stupid money that invested in bad ideas. Now that most of the bad businesses have disappeared, the remaining companies are getting down to doing some real business.
Larry Kramer
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark
It's the movies, stupid. That's what we've been saying all along.
John Fithian
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
Stanislaw J. Lec
It was just one of those stupid things, very frustrating, but I am used to frustration.
Loretta Harrop
Yeah, he was mad. He said we needed to rebound more and get in their face and quit making stupid fouls.
Devron Bostick
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
Martin Freeman
This was the terrorist gang that couldn't shoot straight. That's how stupid they were.
David J. Dean
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
Terry Bradshaw
He likes to talk out there, he's real intense. I knew he was going to do something stupid, and he did. And he got a card for it, so he's just stupid. Stupid player.
Brian Devlin
I feel stupid. I was stupid. It was an expensive lesson but I learned my lesson.
Lila Johnson
Life can be tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. You think you got problems? Get in my private jet and we'll go to Somalia or Rwanda. I'll drop you off in the middle of Baghdad.
Dave Pelzer
It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.
Shahrukh Khan
For all I know, he's a very nice guy who made a very stupid decision .
Donald Sparrow
I just think the guys are pressing, and there's no reason to press. We're doing some stupid things at the plate right now.
Skeeter Barnes
He truly was the difference in 25 games that year with moves a lot of people thought were stupid. I'll never forget in New York when he put a hit and run with the bases loaded and a 3-1 count. I never saw that before.
Rick Sutcliffe
I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.
Rob Schneider
We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.
Chris Stein
You have to do something like that. I mean, if you just stand there and don't do anything, I think something's wrong with you. I probably would have run around some more if I didn't think it would have made look stupid.
D.j. Trahan
I don't think these kids understand how important every possession is. We got the game won, and we do something stupid to get them back into the game. And I keep telling them that they got to respect these guys. They do what they do very well and they're never going to go away.
David Peavy
It was so stupid. He's the first one to talk about it all the time in the briefings: You don't move position in the braking zone for safety reasons.
Tiago Monteiro
If you don?t listen, you?re stupid. He made it all the way. It?s the same with Myers. He?s not coach because someone put him there. He coaches because he knows what he?s doing.
Zac Bischoff
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
Alfred Molina
She came up for a week and we jammed. I think we wrote like six songs for the record that week. When it actually came time to record, she flew in for a week. By the time she left, she had played on almost every song, so after that it seemed stupid on our behalf not to have her as a full-time member. It's always healthy to add something. Forget the fact that the band is called Boys Night Out.
Jeff Davis
I don't care what people think. people are stupid.
Charles Barkley
It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
Colin Farrell
I told him just mainly to understand the situation he's in. People aren't stupid. All they have to do is look at the stats sheet. As a pitching coach, I'd circle that guy's name and I'm saying, ?Look, that guy's not going to beat us. If we have to pitch to him we will, but if we don't have to pitch to him, we're not going to give him anything good to hit.' So I told him, ?Stay patient.
Spanky Mcfarland
I don't think there's any question that prosecutors who adopt a 'KISS' (keep-it-simple, stupid) strategy usually are able to make a much more meaningful and cogent presentation to the jury.
Jacob Frenkel
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
Clearly, 2,000 people can't all be stupid, which is what petition organizers keep saying. This process was flawed from the beginning, driven more by extreme politics than by the grassroots. We know we can't stop the petition from advancing to the Legislature, but this is wrong, plain and simple.
Marc Solomon
If you're under 40 and you know who Robert Conrad is, you had a misspent youth, ... If you're over 40 and don't know who Robert Conrad is, you're stupid.
Robert Conrad
If it's all about distribution, like we keep hearing, then this is a huge distribution channel that Schwab dominates. To do something encouraging them to go somewhere else would be foolish, and I think Schwab recognizes that. They are not stupid.
Brad Sasser
If Clinton's room had the slogan 'It's the economy stupid,' ... then for China it's 'It's Taiwan, stupid.' .
James Mulvenon
I was scared at first. I thought, 'Oh, it'll go away,' and for two months it wouldn't. Shaking hands, stupid stuff like that, I was pretty sore.
Jim Edmonds
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
John Gotti
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Doctor Who
They don't think he'll be sensitive to the needs of Brighton Beach. But he's not a stupid guy. He wants to have a future.
Pat Singer
Come on, man, I'm not that stupid. Obviously (Hernandez) has proven how dumb he is on national TV.
Dave Magadan
I remember when this first came up a couple of years ago. It's so stupid, but it keeps getting worse.
David Kang
I don't know if he was stupid.
Paul Schrader
He was a really nice kid, but sometimes he would get kind of stupid and angry.
Mick Mullink
This is reality TV - if any contestant doesn't know the consequences of that they are a bit stupid.
Jayne Middlemiss
It must be the most stupid thing we've ever done.
Thabo Mbeki
We really want to find him before he does something else stupid or something happens to him.
John Urquhart
I wasn't to make an album that's going to make people say 'WOW! I thought she was just some stupid little teen pop girl who didn't know what was going on' I want to prove people wrong.
Mandy Moore
I was 20 years old when it happened. I thought this was pro hockey, do what the coach says. I look back on it now and, it was stupid.
Wade Belak
As they kind of move beyond the country club thing to a public company, they're going to have to articulate their future growth opportunities much more extensively than in the past. But they're not stupid. They'll learn.
Harrell Smith
The idea that we should somehow protect pupils from content is unbelievably stupid.
David Lambert
It's definitely hard. But every step of the way, I've said to myself, 'Don't be stupid.' I know what this year has been like, and I don't want to go through it again. The thing I need to do is not rush it.
Randy Wolf
I admit I am satisfied, but I don't think it will be easy. We are not stupid enough to underestimate them. We must play two perfect games, we don't have room for error.
Otto Baric
I think it would be a stupid for an NHL team not to take a chance on him. Somebody will. If he keeps on playing the way he's been playing, I don't see why there wouldn't be an invite waiting for him at the end of the season.
Mark Fistric
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
Archibald Alexander
But this is the time to make this push (to cut beneficiary numbers), you'd be stupid not to . . . when there is a jobs shortage.
Robert Stephens
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
If we don't do something completely stupid like gut the Magnuson Act or release some toxic load, it looks like nature has given us this second chance.
Fred Felleman
Every game we went away on, they had something for me, just to let me know I did something stupid.
Jason Berryman
It's completely stupid. They should have stopped the rally there and then. Marcus didn't even pose the question, he stopped. For me, it was the same.
Sebastien Loeb
We didn't field our positions tonight. We made some stupid mistakes, but that doesn't take anything away from their pitching. Good pitching neutralizes good hitting any day of the week.
Don Mccormack
I think we created a few chances but we were not composed in the box. We were a little bit anxious. I think we played well overall but gave up a stupid goal.
Paul Young
Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imagination…The War on Christmas. It's a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.
Jules Carlysle
We feel it would be stupid to compete in Melbourne.
Gary Lough
The people that are doing these things are not stupid or angst-driven teenagers.
Dean Turner
It was a stupid play by me to take that call. I didn't play the way I know I can play. It was frustrating to me and it shouldn't happen.
David Aebischer
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
Bill Bryson
I think we wore down. It was stupid to try that dunk. I regret it. But we played hard and we'll share the title, I guess.
Craig Heiman
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet
Even if it's just a BB gun or a fake gun, it can cause a reaction. It can cause accidents and it can cause someone to get hurt. And now he's going to spend a night in jail, or get in trouble, and have a police record for doing something extremely stupid.
Rick Christopherson
You feel kind of stupid actually handing out Marlin T-shirts to somebody like that.
Todd Jones
Criminals may be dumb, but they're not stupid. They know on the petty thefts that if they get arrested early in a police officer's shift, there's a really good chance they'll be back on the street before that police officer finishes his shift that day.
William Young
Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
Anton Lavey
The whole country is going through this tsunami of public opinion, because there have been abuses. Insensitive and stupid bureaucrats have abused their power.
John Hiscox
It is such a stupid idea that it is embarrassing. It is not the rabbits who are responsible. It's the cats.
Les Underhill
Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!
Homa Arjomand
'Stupid girl' I hate that, because no one knows me, or how I am. That's one thing that I learned from this: The media takes a story and puts whatever spin it wants on it, the biggest headline grabber: 'someone stupid, talking on the phone'. ? That's what made me most mad.
Melissa Borgaard
It makes me feel relaxed. It might sound stupid, but for those 14, 15, 16 seconds. I feel like no one can tell me what to do. I'm free.
Josie Snavely
The tragedy, ... is that this woman needs something, and has expectations, that cannot be fully realized. And to keep herself in such an unforgiving environment, she goes back and forth between being really strong, and stupid about what her priorities are.
Lisa Kudrow
We're slowing down our growth in spending in Asia, but we're not going into a retrenchment mode. That would be stupid. We think Asia will come back eventually.
Jeff Henley
I was very young and very stupid. In the beginning it's mostly just the magic of the process. It's not easy. You don't learn overnight.
John Szarkowski
He was telling me, 'No, I wouldn't be stupid and do anything like that.' He said that the guns were locked up and everything, and he doesn't know where the key is. And I guess that wasn't true.
Steve Reynolds
It was hard sitting on the bench because I knew I made some stupid fouls to foul out. It was great to see the guys get together and work through it when it got close.
Mark Lacey
There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.
Orrin Pilkey
He's just stupid, to be honest. He's got to learn. He's a young lad who's full of fun. That's the animal you get.
Billy Davies
[But as] I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt ... they wake up with Pete Wentz from Illinois.
Pete Wentz
The private sector should have a massively larger role. It is frankly stupid that we are the only country that believes the Soviet system works.
Iain Duncan Smith
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Susan Hampshire
Good kids do stupid things. Kids share everything.
Vicki Ikeler
It was just a stupid, get-rich-quick scheme that young, naive people can get involved in. He understands that it was wrong. And he understands that this is the break of a lifetime.
Jeff Cario
This may seem like stupid semantics on my part, but actors are so often misrepresented in the press, I feel it's important to set the record straight here. Residual payments are not profit-sharing. Residual payments are reuse fees that producers pay to actors when they've re-used the actor's performance a certain number of times.
Wil Wheaton
[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
Toni Cade Bambara
George Ryan may have been greedy, but he was not stupid.
Dr. Joel Levine
If someone is told from the time they are a child that they can't learn or they are stupid, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Debra Conner
The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both.
Liz Mccolgan
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
Bernard Devoto
It's one word - Corvallis. That's all it took for us to get fired up for tonight's game. We had some stupid fouls that we can fix in practice but we played out hearts out.
Travis Neff
The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
Neal Stephenson
I believed him, stupid me. What kind of bookkeeping is that?
Jeanne Phillips
That was just stupid. It's more like bad luck, ... The guy hit me just as I was throwing. I was trying to throw it away.
Quinton Porter
The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision.
Paul Harvey
It's one of those situations. You're trying too hard and you get so frustrated that things aren't working for you and you make stupid decisions.
Reuben Droughns
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein
There used to be the assumption that the orchestra was a male domain – it was a carry-over of the chauvinism that was prevalent in the business. It takes a while for people to be less stupid than they have been in the past.
James Depreist
You'll have irrigators and the usual stupid politics played about this but just think, they're actually getting preferential treatment.
Peter Beattie
You cannot do hazing. If you're stupid enough to do hazing now ... you'll pay the price.
Don Cherry
That's not crazy, it's stupid. I think the guy made a very big mistake, and he should apologize. If you take away the Spanish players, you don't have baseball.
Tony Oliva
Almost the most stupid thing we could do.
Klaus Esser
Anger has overpowered him, and driven him to a revenge which was rather a stupid one, I must acknowledge, but anger makes us all stupid.
Johanna Spyri
Burglars aren't stupid. They make a living doing bad things to people's houses and belongings, and they sell them for about one tenth of what they're worth. So they have to do three or four a day.
Mark Lumpkin
It ends up being a lot of kids who have supervision problems. Their goal is to just do stupid things. They're not out here selling crack cocaine or stolen property.
Doug Simmons
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