Silly, ' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid–and I know they are–yet I won't be wiser?
-
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought...
-
C. Joybell C.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
-
Laurence J. Peter
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-
George Carlin
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
-
Unknown
More Quotes By Dick Francis
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
One should never assume anything
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit...
But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.
