Sillier Quotes

#1. I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

Donna Air

#2. One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

Benjamin Graham

#4. The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

Jill Soloway

#5. In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd," he said pleasantly.
The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

Emma Donoghue

#6. It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

Gracie Allen

#7. I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Judi Dench

#8. Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self.

Liane Moriarty

#9. I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.

Skrillex

#10. Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Petronius

#11. Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

Mary Lascelles

#12. Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers - which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice.

Peter Kreeft

#13. The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

Milan Kundera

#14. The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.

Ilana Glazer

#15. God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good - and is no sillier than any other theology.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Frank McCourt

#17. Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for the grown-up people.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.

Neil Postman

#19. For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Voltaire

#20. Nothing could be sillier than we got good people here. We got the same cross-section of assholes as anywhere.

H. G. Bissinger

#21. I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

Joss Whedon

#22. The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.

Michael Lewis

#23. Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.

Richard Ford

#25. The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

Albert Einstein

#26. To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Raoul Vaneigem

#27. I am unlovable ... I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

#28. I'm a little bit sillier than past Cinderellas ... at least, I am so far. But it's only the second day into rehearsal!

Keke Palmer

#29. All babies are beautiful.

Jeanne Calment

#30. When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Uday Kotak

#31. We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

Tom Petty

#32. But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

Oscar Wilde

#33. The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Maurice Strong

#34. The learned lives, although he dies

Hazrat Ali

#35. Nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.'" "I

Cassandra Clare

#36. For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#37. We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#38. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#39. Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.

Geoff Colvin

#40. The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

R.C. Sproul

#41. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

Robert Thurman

#42. Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

Philip DeFranco

#43. Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Billy Connolly