The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
