What is dumb?

Famous quotes containing the word dumb:

    And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
    How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.
    Orson Welles (1915–1984)