Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

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

Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

“Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it’s natural.”
- Shaquille O’Neal
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
- Horace
"If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, then why did it fall off?"
“There are more airplanes in the water than there are submarines in the sky.”
Anonymous
“Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.”
- Habeeb Akande
"The more you know, the dumber you sound to stupid people."
Anonymous
“Scientists say the world is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. they forgot to mention morons.”
Anonymous
"The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool."
Anonymous
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
- Mark Twain
“On the internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid.”
Anonymous
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘this nonsense.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
- Walt Disney
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
- A. A. Milne
“My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.”
- Jon Bon Jovi
“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
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
- Alice Walker
“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
"Technology is getting smarter and smarter: smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes… Only people remain stupid no matter what."
- Anna LeMind
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
- Plato
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
- Albert Camus
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
Anonymous
"The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise."
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
“The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.”
- Raheel Farooq
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
Anonymous
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
- Gustave Flaubert
"It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull."
— H.L. Mencken
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.”
Antonymous
"I am allergic to stupidity, so I break out in sarcasm."
Anonymous
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.”
- Jack Handey
"Don’t worry about what other people think. They don’t do it very often."
Anonymous
"Stupidity is like a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
"You have no reason to fear zombies, do you?"
Anonymous
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
- George Benard Shaw
"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
Anonymous
“No matter how smart you are, you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid.”
Anonymous
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
- Oscar Wilde
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
- Edith Sitwell
“Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.”
- Mark Hoppus
“If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?”
- Francis Parker Yockey
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
- Alan Dundes
“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”
– Doris M. Smith
“I think if we tell people that the brain is an app, they will start using it.”
Anonymous
“There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.”
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."
"A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything."
- Heinrich Heine
"I prefer not to think before speaking. I like being as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth."
Anonymous
"Better to keep silent and let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln