Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

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

Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

“I am responsible for what I say but I’m not responsible for what you understand.”
Anonymous
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
- Mark Twain
“No matter how smart you are, you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid.”
Anonymous
“Scientists say the world is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. they forgot to mention morons.”
Anonymous
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
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
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
Anonymous
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
- Alan Dundes
"The more you know, the dumber you sound to stupid people."
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
"It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull."
— H.L. Mencken
"Technology is getting smarter and smarter: smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes… Only people remain stupid no matter what."
- Anna LeMind
"Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution."
Anonymous
“Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.”
- P. J. O’Rourke
"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
“There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance.”
Anonymous
“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder!”
Anonymous
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘this nonsense.”
– Benjamin Franklin
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, nothin' can beat teamwork."
- Edward Abbey
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
- George Benard Shaw
"I am allergic to stupidity, so I break out in sarcasm."
Anonymous
"A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything."
- Heinrich Heine
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
- Edith Sitwell
"Don’t believe everything you think."
Anonymous
“My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.”
- Chuck Nevitt
"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
“Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin
“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
“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.”
"You have no reason to fear zombies, do you?"
Anonymous
"I prefer not to think before speaking. I like being as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth."
Anonymous
"Stupid is when you spend 18 hours trying to drown a fish."
Anonymous
“The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.”
- Raheel Farooq
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
– Albert Einstein
"Common sense is not a gift. It’s a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it."
Anonymous
"Better to keep silent and let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
"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."
“If being awesome was a crime, I would be serving a life sentence.”
Anonymous
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
- Gustave Flaubert
"There’s nothing more tedious than seeing how a person shows his intellect, especially if there isn’t any."
- Erich Maria Remarque
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard
"Stupidity is like a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
“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
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
- Elbert Hubbard
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
- Albert Camus
“When a stupid man is doing something, he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
- George Bernard Shaw