Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

England still will be here without you.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

Great Britain Is No Longer An Island.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

Dover is part of England. It simply can't be part of anywhere else.

I like England, but L.A.'s warmer.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

The less people know, the more they yell.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.