Top 100 Stupid Man Quotes
#1. All - all right," she said, looking dubiously at the chair. "I - um, I need to change, though."
"I'll just wait in the hall." He straightened his spine and walked from the room, deciding he was the noblest, most chivalrous, and possibly the most stupid man in all Britain.
Julia Quinn
#2. The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.
Isaac Asimov
#3. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
Sun Tzu
#4. He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.
Arthur Miller
#5. A freezing cold underground river. A dark cave lit by ghosts. A man too stupid to realize you loved him. This is what you want?"
"All of it. Especially the very stupid man.
Molly Ringle
#6. The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Peter Ustinov
#7. Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.
Elizabeth Moon
#8. Why do you love me so much, you stupid man?"
He smiled down at her.
"Because I met you.
Tiffany Reisz
#9. Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#12. And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.
Paul Auster
#14. A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
Abraham Maslow
#16. Full mind is the mind of stupid man; empty mind is the mind of wise man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. You're not a bad man or a stupid man, what you are is a white man.
Barbra-Lee Stephen
#18. Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#19. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. In the beginning of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured him up and gave him some high post in the State.
G.K. Chesterton
#21. There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
Horace
#24. Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.
Philip Kerr
#25. In an election, a stupid man can get the votes of the ignorant much easier than a clever man simply because he will naturally get the attraction of the ignorant; the clever is always repulsive for ignorant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.
"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
Jim Butcher
#27. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
#29. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Du Mu
#30. Though her breathing had gone shallow, she moved like lightning, her legs scissoring to take out those of the stupid, stupid man who'd stood so close to her.
Nalini Singh
#31. He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died."
"Because he was stupid?"
"It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame.
Agatha Christie
#32. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
#33. As long as she doesn't turn too smart for men
For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman's' downfall.
Nina George
#34. One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann
#35. There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
Harper Lee
#36. A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. The cable was still sending sharp sparks into the air. He could think of nothing in life that he especially desired, but those purple sparks
those wildly-blooming flowers of fire
he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his hands."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#38. Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
Bertrand Russell
#40. The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
Peter Ustinov
#42. No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
#44. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#45. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#46. From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
Amy Tan
#47. Behind every strong man is a scared little boy wanting people to tell him it's going to be okay. Remember that, and men will no longer seem as stupid as you think they are.
Anonymous
#48. Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.
Gregor Collins
#51. Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?
David Foster Wallace
#52. To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
Edward Abbey
#53. You really are pretty stupid sometimes, you know that? I think you must be more man than demon." With that, she stormed off. Sam sat where he was, feeling bewildered. "Did I say something wrong?
Phillip W. Simpson
#54. Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man.
William Giraldi
#55. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#56. The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#57. Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foresees
too many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts.
Erich Maria Remarque
#58. No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
John Milton
#59. That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose.
Michael R. Fletcher
#60. We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Christopher Hitchens
#61. Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
Janet Malcolm
#62. If we were alone, you would be against that wall and I would be fucking you stupid.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#64. Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.
Kaje Harper
#65. This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
Nick Moran
#66. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
#67. Stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale,
Neil Gaiman
#68. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#69. Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
#71. She was so stupid. He was just another cowboy looking for someone to shine his buckle, and she'd fallen for it. What a fool. But, she wasn't a fool anymore. She knew who and what she was, and that man was not coming back into her life. No matter how sexy he still was.
Tamara Hoffa
#72. Some people might say it's not smart to be so insecure about what you wear. But that's not how I see it. The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn't need any help. What does a man know about things like that? a stupid woman thinks, and proceeds to make the wrong choice.
Herman Koch
#73. What are you looking at?" I asked ...
"City slicker. What are you looking at?"
"A stupid wookie man-bear-pig who doesn't know how to mind his own business.
Elle Casey
#74. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#75. The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar Wilde
#76. It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew
#77. I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#78. Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can.
Craig Lancaster
#79. ("intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else - only he had better not be),
Robert A. Heinlein
#80. When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
William J. Clinton
#81. Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches.
Paul Auster
#82. Josh's lips found mine, and fuck me stupid, the man could kiss the socks off a worm if it had the feet to put them on.
K.M. Golland
#83. The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
#85. I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.
Robert Burns
#86. Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.
David Seabury
#87. You do. Jordie Thomas is not a take-home-to-Momma kind of man." "No, he isn't," she agreed. "But he is a fuck-you-stupid kind of man.
Toni Aleo
#88. You may be practical, but I am not foolish. Only a woman testing a man tells him not to bother." His eyes glinted. "It's a trap - to see if I'm stupid enough to believe your shameless lies.
Emma Alisyn
#89. The laws of man are made only to be broken, because they are stupid and unjust.
Dennis Wheatley
#90. There are three stupids:
A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a God who considers himself always right.
M.F. Moonzajer
#91. I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
William Shatner
#92. He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)
George R R Martin
#93. Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?
Karen Marie Moning
#94. A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil
#95. Wicked People Love Wickedly, Violent People Love Violently, Weak People Love Weakly, Stupid People Love Stupidly, But The Love Of A Free Man Is Never Safe ...
Toni Morrison
#96. If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#98. For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.
Joe Abercrombie
#99. Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
John Calvin
#100. She thought about all the things she would like to say to him. Thank you for wanting to defend me. Thank you for thinking Rupert is a rogue. Thank you for being a man of integrity. Oh, Lord Hamlin, if you were mine, I'd make you so happy. Rose stifled a laugh at the stupid, outrageous thought.
Melanie Dickerson
