You treat an idiot like an idiot.

Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who - especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this idiot in the White House.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.