Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

These silly and witty sayings give a positive spin to this otherwise touchy subject!

Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”
- Will Rogers
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
– Winston S. Churchill
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
- Carl Sagan
"Stupid is when you spend 18 hours trying to drown a fish."
Anonymous
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
- Plato
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein
“Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin
“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”
– Doris M. Smith
"A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything."
- Heinrich Heine
“There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.”
Anonymous
"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"Stupidity is like a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
“If being awesome was a crime, I would be serving a life sentence.”
Anonymous
"Don’t worry about what other people think. They don’t do it very often."
Anonymous
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”
– Scott Adams
“My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.”
- Chuck Nevitt
"I prefer not to think before speaking. I like being as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth."
Anonymous
“There are more airplanes in the water than there are submarines in the sky.”
Anonymous
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
- Edith Sitwell
“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
- Walt Disney
"If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, then why did it fall off?"
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
– William Shakespeare
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder!”
Anonymous
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
Anonymous
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
- Horace
"The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise."
Anonymous
“Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.”
- P. J. O’Rourke
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
- Alice Walker
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.”
- Habeeb Akande
“If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?”
- Francis Parker Yockey
“My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he’s 97 years old and we have no clue where he is.”
“My biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking that I’d have to do.”
"Common sense is not a gift. It’s a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it."
Anonymous
"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
Anonymous
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
– Albert Einstein
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘this nonsense.”
– Benjamin Franklin
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
Anonymous
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
- George Benard Shaw
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
- Albert Camus
“I am responsible for what I say but I’m not responsible for what you understand.”
Anonymous
"Don’t believe everything you think."
Anonymous
“We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.”
Antonymous
“The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.”
- Rachel Maddow
“Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can’t see.”
“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
“On the internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid.”
Anonymous
“I think if we tell people that the brain is an app, they will start using it.”
Anonymous
"A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time when he actually gets the joke, and a third time when he realizes he was laughing without getting the joke at first."