“To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Inscription On A Lipstick" in The Garment Worker Vol. 41 (1941), p. 10.
“I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!… The stupid fool is a zealot, a warrior, and a clever one. But he doesn't accomplish anything.”
Remarks quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 110
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Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942–2011Related quotes
“No clever person can help here; I see that clearly. Here, only stupidity can help the stupid one!”
Original: (de) "Hier hilft kein Kluger, das seh’ ich klar: hier hilft dem Dummen die Dummheit allein!"
Source: Quotes from his operas, Siegfried, Mime, the dwarf (and master metal-smith), Act 1, Scene 3
“Silly people say stupid things, clever people do them.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite Leute machen sie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 70.
“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 107.
“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) British writer
Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 1, ch. 7.
“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)
