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The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. -- Rosa Bonheur
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. -- Camille Pissarro
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. -- Jeanne Moreau
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either. -- Vanessa Paradis
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. -- Billy Wilder
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. -- Ernest Renan
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. -- C. S. Lewis
In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate. -- Simon Jordan
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. -- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. -- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Three generations of imbeciles are enough. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile. -- Warren Cuccurullo
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. -- Alexandre Dumas
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. -- Umberto Eco
There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles. -- Hippolyte Taine
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. -- Olive Schreiner
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. -- Victoria Woodhull
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. -- Horace Greeley
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Constantin Brancusi
The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men. -- Freda Adler
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles! -- Claude Debussy
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. -- H. L. Mencken
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. -- Henry Van Dyke
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. -- Harlan Ellison
I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it. -- Morrie Brickman
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves. -- Rick Yancey
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. -- Molly Ringwald
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible. -- R. D. Laing
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? -- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. -- Voltaire
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. -- Paul Cezanne
What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles. -- Thomas De Witt Talmage
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 -- Billy Wilder
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Georges Courteline
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory. -- Horace Greeley
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. -- Georges Courteline

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