Top 38 Quotes About Blockheads
#1. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#2. To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Michel De Montaigne
#5. For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
Martin Luther
#6. What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
Robert Southey
#7. Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
Karl Kraus
#8. The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.
William Blake
#9. Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Thomas Otway
#10. The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.
Isaac D'Israeli
#11. The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
Bayard Taylor
#12. When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Jonathan Swift
#13. How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along? While
Sarah Vowell
#15. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#16. Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
Lord Chesterfield
#19. I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads.
Stephen Crane
#20. The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.
Jack McDevitt
#21. Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
Martin Luther
#22. No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
John Dryden
#23. Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
#24. The votes of a hundred or a thousand blockheads set the course for the enlightened.
Anonymous
#25. While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead.
Ryan Holiday
#26. When you say he's your soulmate, I think what you actually mean is that he's utterly gorgeous and you'd really like to get him naked. Let's not get too melodramatic here.
Georgiana Derwent
#27. The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Tom Hanks
#28. I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
Hope Davis
#29. It is the work and not the reward that is precious.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. You build your reality from the desires and thoughts that you focused upon.
Steven Redhead
#31. The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
Sherilyn Fenn
#32. Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Mary Todd Lincoln
#34. What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
John Green
#35. A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
Voltaire
#37. A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
Jean De La Bruyere
#38. As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.
Thom Browne
