Idiots Quotes

By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.

I, Tiberius Claudius . . ., who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “that Claudius,”… or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing […]

Idiot Box, n.: The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can’t quite figure it out for themselves.

When God has created a perfect idiot, He says to him, “You shall be a tenor!” (baritone)

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

It seems to me that one of the prime jobs of every educated man on this earth is to denounce charlatans. New ones are always popping up, and the common run of idiots are always succumbing to them. There is little if any difference between one and another.

So long as there are men in the world, 99 percent of them will be idiots, and so long as 99 percent of them are idiots they will thirst for religion, and so long as they thirst for religion, it will remain a weapon over them. I see no way out. If you blow up […]

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

I’ve had that feeling all my life. I never heard anybody else call it that. A guardian idiot: a little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me… only he’s a complete imbecile.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots.