Quotes by category:Silly

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you a... by A. A. Milne

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

stuff silly writing

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is... by A. A. Milne

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

silly bird long

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is... by A. A. Milne

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

perfect silly two

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

clever silly book

The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

views silly blue

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

money silly war

We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

labels silly watches

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5. by Aaron Rodgers

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

nfl silly thinking

It's so silly not to be nice. by Aaron Spelling

It's so silly not to be nice.

being-nice nice silly

It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.

silly moving thinking

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Abraham Lincoln

silly people thinking

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

Abraham Lincoln

silly men believe

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg. by Abraham Maslow

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

humorous god silly

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool by Aesop

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly... by Agatha Christie

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Agatha Christie

silly believe way

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

silly sports country

It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

Alain de Botton

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