Cliff Clevenger Quotes

A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

One of these days I’m going to blast President Truman’s State Department wide open.

Harry Truman is the worst President in history.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

You look like a horse in a man costume

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?