Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.