Dumber Quotes

#1. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. He's weak, afraid and dumber than your dog.
Besides, you gonna bet the farm on a pig?

The Alien Club

Trel Sidoruk

#3. People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.

William Missouri Downs

#4. You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

Brad Stone

#5. Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country" - what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots - and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.

John Irving

#6. Brilliant intellects do not matriculate to study under someone dumber than themselves. Paul recognized Jesus as master of the intellect, above him in every way.

John Ortberg

#7. One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.'

Paul Dano

#8. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?

Rebecca McNutt

#9. If you can't bring yourself to encourage employees to lie down on the job, at least give them plenty of breaks. The ordinary fatigue most of us feel during the workday makes us grouchier - and dumber - as the hours go by.

Robert I. Sutton

#10. The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.

Emily Oster

#11. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Timothy Leary

#12. I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

Terry Teachout

#13. The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

Jim Courier

#14. Oh, sweetie, you are a jackass. I love you, but you are dumber than a one legged duck in an ass kicking contest when pigs fly.

Tara Sivec

#15. The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Stephen Sondheim

#16. We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog.

Gordon Korman

#17. Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Flea

#18. Criminals are getting younger and dumber,

Julie Garwood

#19. If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again.

Robert Osborne

#20. Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

Stephen Malkmus

#21. She's dumber than a box of hair.

Bink Cummings

#22. As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Peter McWilliams

#23. I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

Scott Adams

#24. Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo...

Kim Harrison

#25. That's why they're man's best friend. 'Cause guys want buddies that are dumber than they are. So do women, but they've already got men

Bill Engvall

#26. For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants
not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

Jay Leno

#27. If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention.

James Lileks

#28. I love you," he said. "This couldn't be a dumber place and time to tell you, I know. But, God, Bailey. I love you." He paused. "I love you.

S. Walden

#29. Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

Tana French

#30. I've been young & dumb, and if I were never called out on it I would now be older and dumber.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#31. We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Ivan Stang

#32. I claim no special knowledge of when the end of science will come, or where the end might be found, or whether an end exists at all. What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#33. Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

Lorrie Moore

#34. At its best, the Internet can educate more people faster than any media tool we've ever had. At its worst, it can make people dumber than any media tool we've ever had.

Thomas L. Friedman

#35. Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

Kelis

#36. I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

Michael Pitt

#37. In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

Harland Williams

#38. You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don't exist.

Hank Green

#39. My face is a mask. I hide my thoughts. My words are calculated to please, charm, or undermine. I can sound smarter or dumber, depending on what you expect to hear. My actions further my self- interest.

Lisa Scottoline

#40. I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children - people dumber than you learn about them.

Larry McMurtry

#41. The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

Aaron Sorkin

#42. There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Peter Andrews

#43. As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters involving their crotch.

Scott Hawkins

#44. Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Rachel Caine

#45. I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

Patrick Warburton

#46. Eric cheated on her with a girl dumber than a box of Beanie Babies and lied about it.

Carey Corp

#47. It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

Colin Powell

#48. The dumber people think you are, the easier they are to kill ~ Sandman Slim

Mercedes Fox

#49. That girl's dumber than a dried stick in a match factory.

Denise Grover Swank

#50. I [do not know] when the end of science will come ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#51. The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

Mo Willems

#52. I get dumber as the day goes along. Every second of the day that goes along, I get stupider.

John Waters

#53. Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

Rick Santorum

#54. YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

Andrew Smith

#55. It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Gary Ackerman

#56. I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

Stephen King

#57. New Rule: Whenever you think the Tea Party can't get any dumber, they get dumber. Now they're in love with Donald Trump. Because nothing says "We're serious about fiscal responsibility" quite like a billionaire whose corporations have filed for bankruptcy three times.

Bill Maher

#58. We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

Clive Thompson

#59. The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

William Clayton

#60. Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#61. I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'

Woody Harrelson

#62. You two are like Dumb and Dumber on ice skates.

Beth Ehemann

#63. If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

Dolly Parton

#64. I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody.

Jim Butcher

#65. The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.

Frank Black

#66. If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.

Jesse Ventura

#67. Okay, there is no possible combination of English words that would form a dumber plan than that.

David Wong

#68. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.

Gillian Flynn

#69. Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.

Richard Corliss

#70. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Michael Haneke

#71. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

Brigid Schulte

#72. The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

Ben Casnocha

#73. Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

Lois Greiman

#74. Don't hurt him. (Geary)
Do you think I came all the way over here to hurt him? If I'd wanted him hurt, I'd have left him to Tweedle Dumb and Dumber. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#75. Don't even try understanding the dumber sex. Just be happy they're getting along now and not punching each other's lights out.

Tonya Burrows

#76. My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

Derek Holland

#77. I don't want to sound condescending, so I'm not going to say anything else, except that it is literally impossible to imagine a thing dumber than sports.

Jesse Andrews

#78. You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Jodi Thomas

#79. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Shawn Colvin

#80. I'm going to the library to taunt an animal dumber than me. Boys count.

Sara Wolf

#81. They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

Dean Koontz

#82. The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Douglas Rushkoff

#83. There's nothing sexier than confidence, and nothing dumber than over-confidence. Life is all about where you draw the line between the two.

Michael Makai

#84. You must be dumber than you think I think you are.

Robert Towne

#85. I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

D.B.C. Pierre

#86. Accept people, don't stereotype people. Don't think because right now they're driving a cab, they're not going to have a master's degree or that they're dumber than you.

Isabel Coixet

#87. All this to say of course Gallo wants to get into your Little Mermaid panties. And if you don't get that, you're dumber than I ever thought, which gives me such a headache to even contemplate. The massive amount of your dumbness. It hurts me,' he whined.

MaryJanice Davidson

#88. The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.

Stephen King

#89. My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

Michael Hirst

#90. Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

William S. Burroughs

#91. There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

Bill Walsh

#92. There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.

Larry McMurtry

#93. You don't need to be smarter; you just need dumber friends.

Lois Greiman

#94. You know that movie 'Dumb and Dumber'? If there's an addition of a third member, I'd get the part of 'Dumbest'.

Martin Reed

#95. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

James Surowiecki

#96. The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

Dizzy Dean

#97. When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Jim Carrey

#98. Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

Jack Bickham

#99. It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

Anita Loos

#100. dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on

Judy Blume