Dumb Quotes - Page 37

• Cruel, but composed and bland,
  Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
  So Tiberius might have sat,
  Had Tiberius been a cat.

  Matthew Arnold

  Cat, Might, Sat

  'Poor Matthias' (1885) l. 40

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Soul

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.

  Johnny Depp

  Years, Alcohol, Drug

  "Johnny Depp Sings" by Gavin Edwards, www.rollingstone.com. January 24, 2008.

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• We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Book, Rough Drafts, Coconuts

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• Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

  Dana Gioia

  Punishment, Catholic, Soul

  "The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

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• Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

  Charles de Lint

  Ignorance, People, Ignorant

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.98, Macmillan

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Evil People

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• Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

  Julie Klausner

  Wings, Consciousness, Compliment

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• Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winter, Thinking, Knitting

  1962 'Wintering', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

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• When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Thinking, Smartphones, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Death, World, Woe

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• I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  "From 'Pale Force' to 'My Boys' Region native Jim Gaffigan keeps comedy career chuggin' with new sitcom". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, December 15, 2006.

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• No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Miracle, Luck

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• George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Winter, Sunlight

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Oracles

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies,
  And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies.
  How are the mighty fallen!
  Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears,
  Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears:
  Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim
  In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame
  Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe,
  With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  William Somervile

  Lying, Fall, Warrior

  "The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan". Poem by William Somervile,

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• The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

  Anton Newcombe

  Animal, Middle, Middle Of The Road

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• Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Sorry, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.470, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Perfect, Deaf

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hero, Battle, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.3

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb People, Can Do

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Strong, Distance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

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