Silly Things Quotes

• If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Silly, Maturity, Craving

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Silly, Night

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• One does silly things when one is twelve.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Twelve, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.704, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Silly, Thinking

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Silly, Men, Belief

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 1, 1595.

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• Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

  Paul Giamatti

  Silly, Playing Dress Up, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dance, Silly, People

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• Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silly, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.352, Hachette UK

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• A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

  Gene Wilder

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!

  James Maslow

  Silly, Party, Drinking

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• You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

  Romain Rolland

  Hero, Silly, Men

  Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

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• From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

  Alicia Keys

  Silly, People, Worry

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• If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  Silly, Territory, Primitive

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Silly, Young

  Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

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• 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.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

  John Bonham

  Silly, Writing, Groups

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• I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Zoos, Fun, Silly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

  Emily Osment

  Silly, Embarrassed

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• In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Country, Silly, Kind

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.246, Vintage

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• You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.

  David B. Haight

  Silly, Men, Mind

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