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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. — Charles Churchill

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. — John Kennedy Toole

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Ivan Turgenev

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? — Jonathan Swift

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. — Alexander Pope

There is no dunce like a mature dunce. — George Santayana

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce. — Charles Churchill

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. — C.S. Lewis

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift

Your gut is your inner compass. — Oprah Winfrey

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. — John Hay

Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. — Corra May Harris

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. — Jonathan Swift

But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons. — Alwyn Hamilton

The clear water rippled gently, licking the line of fresh blue tile around its rim like a liquid puppy waiting to be played with. — N.D. Wilson

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. — Isaac D'Israeli

We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer. — Zig Ziglar

Break something on the computer again with those big man hands?"

"Shut up, minion," he teased. — Carrie Ann Ryan

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me. — Eminem

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die? — Ian McEwan

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys. — Zig Ziglar

Not all celebrities are dunces. — Carroll O'Connor

I have worked with some of the greatest minds in astrophysics and it is now clear that they were the dunces of astrobiology. — Steven Magee

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. — Daniel Tosh

Sometimes we're loyal to more than one thing. When there's a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor. — Claudia Gray

When, on your dangerous mission gone,
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances. — Stanley Kunitz