Ann Richards Quotes

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

We all do stupid things.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

Fools are without number.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

He who is shipwrecked the second time, cannot lay the blame on Neptune

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.

Stupidity took me pretty far.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Human error is usually the result of impatience.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.