simpletons

I suspect that your model of simpletons is too … simplistic.

The Crucial Simpleton Vote 2008

And this method, as it pleased Bruno and other dull people of that day, so does it equally satisfy certain simpletons of our own, who are well served by artists as commonplace as themselves.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

For nearly two decades they've been doing shows-sometimes just the two of them, sometimes with a loose cadre of "simpletons" - that prove great theater doesn't require a huge budget, a great venue, or a well-funded staff.

Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue 2008

He has only to walk abroad and he hears and sees the same sort of thing: those who do their own business in the city are called simpletons, and held in no esteem, while the busy-bodies are honored and applauded.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

They belong to that species of our bedeviled race, called simpletons; but their devils harming none but themselves, are permitted to be at large with the fish.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

He has only to walk abroad and he hears and sees the same sort of thing: those who do their own business in the city are called simpletons, and held in no esteem, while the busy-bodies are honoured and applauded.

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

The simpletons are the ones like Kenny who see hunger as a math problem of acres and prices.

The Seattle Times 2011

He has only to walk abroad and he hears and sees the same sort of thing: those who do their own business in the city are called simpletons, and held in no esteem, while the busy-bodies are honored and applauded.

The Republic of Plato Plato 1763

That's right, he's there to take away the votes of the mis-informed tv watcher. aka the simpletons

Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet 2009

That's right, he's there to take away the votes of the mis-informed tv watcher. aka the simpletons

Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet 2009