Chumps Quotes

• Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

  Iceberg Slim

  Beautiful, Lying, Ugly

  Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

  Charles Edison

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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• Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

  W. C. Fields

  Uncles, Men, Giving

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Husband, Men, Brain

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

  Masayoshi Son

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

  Frank Zappa

  Suicide, Bridges, Firsts

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• I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

  Jeff Beck

  Song, Jobs, Mistake

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Together, Knows

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Looks, World, Providence

  "Aunts Omnibus".

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• That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Respect, People

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• ...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Dog, Yellow

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• Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Optimism, Denial, Life Experience

  Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

  Neal Shusterman

  Art, Eye, Needs

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• Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

  Edith Evans

  People, Awful, Actresses

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

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