Quotes About Rubes

Frisco"—a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes.

These folks from New York are all so high and mighty, with their skyscrapers and banquets and everything that t if we don't guess they come from there when we first lay an eye on 'em, we just show ourselves as awful rubes. Oh, yes! Yes. You can always tell 'em by their touch-me-not ways.

And they think you saints are all rubes! What's a rube? A holy man.

Maggie cracked, "Quite the businesswoman, isn't she?" "Makes the capitalists back East look like rubes.

Trump having the ability to trick a mob of rubes into storming the Capitol wasn't a reason to stop enabling him, it was more evidence that his mob must be obeyed.

At the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, a man dressed as a cowboy appeared onstage and strangled rattlesnakes by the dozen. He called what came out of them snake oil. People bought it. Of course quacks have flourished in all ages and cultures, for nothing shows reason the door like cures for things. Unlike most scams, which target greed, quackery fires deeper into Jungian universals: our fear of death, our craving for miracles. When we see night approaching, nearly all of us are rubes.