Quotes of Silly - somelinesforyou

“ The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and very important. ”

- Lisa Hoffman

“ The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ”

- Maurice Freehill

“ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ”

- Will Rogers

“ To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness — though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. ”

- Julian Barnes

“ I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ”

- George Carlin

“ The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ”

- John Dryden

“ There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. ”

- Cicero

“ Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. ”

- Adam Clarke

“ Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. ”

- Diogenes

“ I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ”

- George Berkeley

“ If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ It's a little ridiculous. ”

- Guy Kawasaki

“ Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. ”

- Twyla Tharp

“ I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ”

- Russell Hoban

“ It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ”

- Donald A. Miller
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