A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愚蠢
Stupid
How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
如果你没有大脑，你怎么能说话呢?我不知道，但是有些没有脑子的人会说很多话。
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
要找到一个在自己眼中既不聪明，在世人眼中又不愚蠢的年轻人，是一项非常艰巨的任务。
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
虽然不是所有的保守派都是愚蠢的人，但大多数愚蠢的人都是保守的，这是事实。
They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak; An’ syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o’Greek!
他们成群结队地骑着马镫，从驴群里出来，说的都是真话;他们还想靠希腊人的力量爬上帕纳索斯山呢!
None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time.
我们都不喜欢认为自己愚蠢。但所有人都必须承认，他们有时也会犯傻。
You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
你知道，刚开始的时候，大多数人都认为说唱很蠢，而它是当时最具创新性的音乐形式之一。
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
蛊惑人心者的秘密在于使自己和听众一样愚蠢，使他们相信自己和他一样聪明。
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
这句话对所有批评我的人都适用:你不觉得自己很愚蠢吗?看看我是怎么做的。看看我说这话时是怎么回事。
Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.
世界上大多数真正的坏人都是像你我这样的人;他们不笨，你也闻不到他们的角。
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in love.
你永远不会明白为什么人们会为爱做傻事，除非你自己亲身体验过恋爱的滋味。
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
任何声称每天阅读整份报纸的人要么是世界上阅读速度最快的人，要么就是世界上说谎最多的人。
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like,'Here I am holding a red ball.'
一般来说，魔术师不知道该说什么，所以他们会说一些愚蠢而多余的废话，比如，“我拿着一个红色的球。”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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.
很难想象有比把这些决定交给那些不为错误付出代价的人更愚蠢或更危险的决策方式了。
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
蠢人不懂知识只凭想象行事，学究不懂想象只凭知识行事。
If you are not willing to sound stupid then you don't deserve to be in love.
如果你不愿意听起来很傻，那么你不配拥有爱。
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you will never learn.
如果你隐藏自己的无知，没有人会打你，你永远也学不会。
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
如果愚人坚持他的愚蠢，他就会变得聪明。
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
傻瓜有两种:一种说:“这是旧的，所以是好的。”另一个说:“这是新的，所以更好。”