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  • Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?

    Men   Quality   Alive  
    Jonathan Swift, “The Sick Lion And The Ass”
  • Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.

    John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.101, Hackett Publishing
  • The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社
  • When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

    Satire   Dunces  
    Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1854). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift: With a Life”, p.168
  • The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

    Stupidity   Faces   Ears  
  • When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

    Dunces   Fortuna  
    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press
  • There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

    George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • 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.

    House   Stupidity   Acres  
  • Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

    Work   Today   Employers  
    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.237, LSU Press
  • Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

  • There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

    Men   Saint   Way  
  • Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

    Fighting   Heaven   Earth  
  • A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

    John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.23, Dubois Publishing
  • It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
  • The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

    Memories   People   Use  
    John Hay (1897). “Castilian Days”
  • For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

    James Russell Lowell (1856). “Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley”, p.17
  • Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

  • Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

    Fool   Dunces   Folly  
    Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64
  • It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

    Oil   Water   Evil  
  • How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

    Home   Dunces   Has Beens  
    'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 415
  • Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

    Buckets   Pool   Fountain  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics
  • In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  • Not all celebrities are dunces.

    Dunces  
  • I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

    Food   Writing   Cheesy  
    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.9, LSU Press
  • Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

    John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.89, Dubois Publishing
  • ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

    Science   Men   Thieves  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.57, 谷月社
  • As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

    Clive James (2009). “Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James”, p.167, Pan Macmillan
  • The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

    Facts   Nihilist   Dunces  
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.54, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

    John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press
  • Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.

    Thinking   Games   Play  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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