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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.
To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.