Silly Quotes

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

There is no sin except stupidity.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

The best things in life are silly.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.