Chumps Quotes:

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

- Iceberg Slim

source: Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Ugly, Iceberg, Chumps

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

- Charles Edison

topic: Jobs, Men, Hands, Springboards, Chumps

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

- W. C. Fields

topic: Uncles, Men, Giving, Chumps

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

topic: Husband, Men, Brain, Best Husband, Chumps

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

- Masayoshi Son

topic: Thinking, Years, Two, Chumps, Sniffing

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Suicide, Bridges, Firsts, Chumps

I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

- Jeff Beck

topic: Song, Jobs, Mistake, Chumps

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

- Gary D. Schmidt

source: Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Together, Chumps

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: "Aunts Omnibus".

topic: Looks, World, Providence, Chumps

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Sports, Respect, People, Chumps

...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

topic: Mother, Dog, Yellow, Rice, Chumps

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

- Jonathan Kellerman

source: Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

topic: Optimism, Denial, Life Experience, Chumps

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

- Neal Shusterman

topic: Art, Eye, Needs, Chumps

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

- Edith Evans

source: "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

topic: People, Awful, Actresses, Chumps