Silly Quotes - Page 28

• To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Errors, Simplicity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.66, Routledge

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• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  Camille Flammarion

  Clever, Lightning, Eccentric

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• My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Too Much, Honest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

  Doris Day

  Men, People, Doe

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• The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Essence, Profound

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• Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

  George Henry Borrow

  Race, Use, Facts

  "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.

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• The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Fighting, Boys, Toys

  "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.

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• we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

  Maude Royden

  Sex, Suffering, Waste

  Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC

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• When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

  Josh Groban

  Jobs, Couple, Stuff I Like

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• No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Owning A Pet, Pet Loss

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• NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Integrity, Issues, Accomplishment

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• Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

  T.S. Mathews

  Men, People, Choices

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• Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

  Oliver Herford

  Song, Ordinary, Speech

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

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• It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

  Hermann Goring

  People, Goering, Moral

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• Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Taken, Law, Imagination

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• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some
  phobias.

  Dane Cook

  Teenager, Kids, Anxiety

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Children, Real, Book

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• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Army, Order

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Two, Coward

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• This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

  Sarah Lacy

  Girl, Running, Responsibility

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• I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sunday, People, Pressure

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• I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Ideas, Band, Get Up

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• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get. I think I'm a stronger comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress. I'm not really pigeonholed, but I'm known for drama. I do comedy so easily, and people relate to my humor. I'll be glad because I don't have to stay sexy and young forever. I don't care if I'm big, as long as I'm funny.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Sexy, Drama, Thinking

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, Upcoming NO GOOD DEED, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.

  Jack Johnson

  Appreciation, People, Joy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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