Borderline Stupidity

Stupidity: unwisdom prevailed. - Winston Churchill

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not. - Napoleon

Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.' - Forrest Gump

You can't cure stupid, but you can sedate it. - Unknown

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. - Latin Proverb

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison

There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. - Douglas MacAurthur

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. - Otto von Bismarck

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Harlan Ellison

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid. - T-Pain

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. - Dorothy Parker

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love. - Emma Watson

I wear a fun sock when I travel to give the security staff a well-deserved chuckle. - Chelsea Peretti

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

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - Lord Chesterfield

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. - C S Lewis

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. - Dean Koontz

You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. - Unknown

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. - Robbie Coltrane

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. - James Allen

Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have stupid people. - Donald Trump

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. - Karl Kraus

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" - Steven Wright

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. - Peter F Drucker

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden