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Idiot Quotes by Mark Twain
- All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the…
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable…
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
- Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
More Idiot Quotes
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. — Kevin Bacon
- Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. — David Bailey
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
- Only idiots refuse to change their minds. — Brigitte Bardot