Quotes About Incompetence

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

One would think the governments of these countries would know better, but they are just as asinine as all governments throughout history. Maybe

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

Couldn't get that idiot to make a decision if you begged him. Notice how he makes that ehh sound when he has to think? He couldn't lead a pack of Cub Scouts to the rest room.

These local yokels couldn't find their own asses if you tattooed their names on each cheek.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

For several Roman observers, senatorial weakness for bribery was one major factor lying behind their failure: 'Rome's a city for sale and bound to fall as soon as it finds a buyer', as Jugurtha was supposed to have quipped when he left the city. The general incompetence of the governing class was another.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

You couldn't hit the ball with a steam iron today

Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!