Poor Judgment Quotes

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.

The thing with sledging is it very rarely goes well. Usually, if I was sledging, I was struggling.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

The worst mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was to accept George W. Bush as his running mate.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

The definition of a gaff is when a politician says what he really thinks.