Sillier Than Sayings

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

H. G. Bissinger

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

Raoul Vaneigem

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Petronius

#8. 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

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

Voltaire

#10. Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Gregory Maguire

#13. 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

#14. The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture ... we merge in an iridescent chaos.

Paul Cezanne

#15. 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

#16. My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

Beth Behrs

#17. 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

#18. I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Leif Garrett

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Jill Soloway

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

Benjamin Graham

#24. Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...

Henri Poincare

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

Frank McCourt

#26. THE MISCONCEPTION: If you are in a bad situation, you will do whatever you can do to escape it. THE TRUTH: If you feel like you aren't in control of your destiny, you will give up and accept whatever situation you are in.

David McRaney

#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. My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

Brendan Rodgers

#29. The West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.

Anatoliy Golitsyn

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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