(That man is) so stupid it sits on him like a halo -Emlyn Williams.(A snail’s about as) smart as mud -CBS-TV news story about snails being grown for escargot lovers, November 5, 1986.A man with a small head is like a pin without any, very apt to get into things beyond his depth -Josh Billings.Look stupid as a poet in search of a simile -Thomas Holcroft.(He) looked as if he’d stood in line twice when the brains were being handed out -Christopher Hale.Like dogs, that meeting with nobody else, bit one another -John Ray’s Proverbs.He crumples his nose up, looking for his fleas -Henri-Pierre Roche Isn’t very intelligent … he’s like a hound that simply follows the scent.(About as) intelligent as a bundle of shawls -Henry James.I’m as thick as a plank -Princess Diana excusing herself from playing a game with a patient during a hospital visit, quoted, Public Radio.His head was as empty as a politician’s speech -Anon.He’s like the man who thinks it’s raining when you pee in his eyes -Anon.He’d be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, if he wasn’t as dull as ditch water -Charles DickensĪ Dickensian twist on King Lear’s lament about an ungrateful child.Had the brains of a Playboy bunny and fucked like one -Jonathan Valin.The beetle has been linked to dullness and stupidity since the sixteenth century. Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do, another one grows back in the same place -Jonathan Kellerman.See Also: ABSURDITY, DULLNESS, FOOLISHNESS, INSULTS, MIND
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