When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
