Stupidity

I am reading 10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. It's a book my mother sent me just after Christmas. She also sent me Dr. Laura's book The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, which I have not yet read and may leave on the shelf for a little while. Dr. Laura is a secular voice, but she has a lot of practical wisdom. For example, she is very much against couples living together before they are married. I like that about her! There were a few quotes from what I have read so far that I particularly enjoyed that I will post here.

If you kiss a toad, you don't get a prince--you get slime in your mouth and bad memories (p. 53).

Granted, there are no psychiatric diagnostic categories for laziness, immaturity, cowardice, selfishness, and downright stupidity. Even if there were, it wouldn't matter because no one bothers to consider them anymore. Know why? In the Age of the Victim, nothing is anybody's fault! (p. xviii)

To refuse to learn anything that could prove beneficial to yourself is a working definition of stupid (p. 6).

Real love is a long marination of qualities having to do with respect, admiration, appreciation, character, affection, cooperation, honor and sacrifice (p. 55).