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Silly Quotes - Page 12

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Philippe DiolĂ© (1973). “Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence”, Doubleday Books

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.29, Heron Dance Press

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

"Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II”, p.455, Bantam Classics

I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

"Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.32, David R. Godine Publisher

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

"The Firm, the Market, and the Law (Note on the problem of social costs)". Book by Ronald Coase (p. 185), 1988.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42