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A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise. -- Peter Thiel
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. -- Alexander Pope
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. -- Lord Byron
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -- Emma Goldman
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. -- William Cowper
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare. -- Lisa Marie Presley
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap. -- Walter Kirn
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. -- Charles Churchill
There is no dunce like a mature dunce. -- George Santayana
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! -- Friedrich Schiller
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. -- Daniel Tosh
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce. -- Charles Churchill
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. -- George Eliot
I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason. -- Chautona Havig
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. -- Ambrose Bierce
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. -- James Russell Lowell
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. -- Ambrose Bierce
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity. -- Alexander Theroux
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute. -- Dave Grohl
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees. -- Thomas Carlyle
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel. -- Franz Grillparzer
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt. -- Anne Frank
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. -- Oliver Goldsmith

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