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Quotes About Silliness

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!
~ Philip Reeve
Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth.
~ Philip Reeve
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
~ Alan Thicke
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been the patient one. I have waited for the world to stop being silly. I have waited for it to stop wars. I have waited for politicians to be honest. I have waited for real estate men to be good citizens. But while I wait, I dance!
~ Ray Bradbury
I believe in children praying--well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles.
~ Joseph Conrad
And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
~ Walt Whitman
Adults love to ask children idiotic questions so that we can chuckle when they give us idiotic answers.
~ Daniel Todd Gilbert
tra-la-la!-captain underpants
~ Dav Pilkey
He was wearing a winged hat, but he'd forgotten to put on his pants.
~ David Archer
She giggled. "I'm glad you're fine, because I'm looking forward to teasing you for the next ten years about that scream. Even I can't hit a note that high.
~ James Maxey
They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
~ Douglas Adams
He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
~ Douglas Adams
She was like the boy who held his breath until he turned blue. Chimps are just as silly and absurd as human beings. Thank goodness we're not the only ridiculous species in the world!
~ Douglas Preston
It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.
~ Agatha Christie
But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....
~ Agatha Christie
so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.
~ Agatha Christie
That's different. She's a woman, and women act in that silly way. I'm not saying she did it for a moment. She heard he was accused and she trumped up a story. I'm used to that sort of game. You wouldn't believe the fool things I've known women do.
~ Agatha Christie
All families are silly in their own way.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.
~ Derek Hough
I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.
~ Lewis Capaldi
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
~ Sue Perkins
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
~ Michael Palin
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
~ Michael Winter