Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

Warren Buffett

In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.

Warren Buffett

I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention.

Vivienne Westwood

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Vladimir Lenin

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

Walter Bagehot

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Werner Herzog

Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

Werner Herzog

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

Werner Herzog

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

Samuel Beckett

I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them. *1937

William H. Gass

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

Warren Zevon

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.

Warren Zevon

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Walter Martin

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

Voltaire

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Voltaire

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

William Least Heat-Moon

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

William Kennedy

Anger makes people stupid.

Yogi Berra

Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

Winston Churchill

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Vinnie Jones

Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

William Wordsworth

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Saroyan

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

William J. Clinton

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President.

William J. Clinton

When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.

William J. Clinton

An innocent bureaucratic snafu