Chekhov Anton 1860-1904
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
The Mikado
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Millay Edna St Vincent 1892-1950
April,
Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
Letters of Peter Plymley
The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.