43 Quotes About Idiot Friends

When poor decisions are made by our friends, we can be left to feel wronged and left unconsidered. These quotes about idiot friends reminds us that not all friends are created equal.

“Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.”

“Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it’s impossible; it’s like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it’s done. And by the time you get it in, it’s done and you’re sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn’t do. I mean, writing isn’t fun. It’s never been fun.”

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

“Believe it or not, I’m a bit clumsy with technology. It’s probably why I’m so excited about the touchscreen – even an idiot can use it!”

“But I’m not an idiot. At the end of the day, I’ve learned a lot.”

“Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.”

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”

“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”

“I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.”

“I live right next to a grocery store and I don’t know if it’s the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I’m an idiot because I don’t shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I’m in there sometimes twice a day.”

“I think everybody’s got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you’re an idiot.”

“I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn’t care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.”

“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot’s body.”

“I’m not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.”

“In the startup world, you’re either a genius or an idiot. You’re never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.”

“Is being an idiot like being high all the time?”

“I’ve had great success being a total idiot.”

“Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It’s an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot.”

“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

“Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.”

“Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.”

“Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who’s an idiot, like myself, they’re fun. You either hate me or you love me.”

“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot.”

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

“The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”

“The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.”

“There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.”

“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”

“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“Today, it’s about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn’t agree would be a bit of an idiot.”

“We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.”

“You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that’s why I tend to just jump into things. I’m sort of a fearless idiot that way.”

“You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that’s just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.”

“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”

Looking beyond your immediate friends list will allow you to empower your community and encourage larger groups of people for a greater good.