Silly Quotes - Page 8

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.

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

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.

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

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.