"A man with a small head is like a pin without any, very apt to get into things beyond his depth."
— Josh Billings
"Optimism through stalwart skepticism is a defect not everyone is lucky enough to be cursed with."
— Rose Lalonde, Homestuck
"Sometimes it depresses me how well dumb luck works for you."
Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
— Gandalf, to Pippin, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"People who enjoyed a merely superficial acquaintance with my nephew Archibald (said Mr. Mulliner) were accustomed to set him down as just an ordinary pinheaded young man. It was only when they came to know him better that they discovered their mistake. Then they realized that his pinheadedness, so far from being ordinary, was exceptional."
— The Reverent Wooing of Archibald, by P. G. Wodehouse
It is true. The flower of luck grows on the dung of stupidity.
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
"Durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor,
harre sein, den ich erkor." Translation
harre sein, den ich erkor." Translation
— Parsifal
Jake Hama does not pretend at incompetence. He is the real thing. We could disregard him, going forward, but he is the Fool in its most base aspect. By his very irrelevance, he will trip the larger equations in ways more relevant figures would not be allowed.
—Bong Cha, The Secret World
