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Quotes About Silliness

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
~ John Lithgow
What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst. "You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you.
~ B.J. Daniels
I'm a goof, man.
~ Kurt Elling
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
~ Matt Groening
You've gotta have time to be a kid, you've gotta have some time to play around and be goofy.
~ Mason Ramsey
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!
~ George Carlin
Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'
~ Chevy Chase
I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'
~ Christina Hendricks
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ Samuel Butler
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~ Samuel Butler
We shall enjoy it As for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!
~ Sappho
I guess anything's possible. But maybe I'm just being silly. There's time to keep hope alive and a time to let go.
~ Sara Shepard
But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antics which he may play in his solitary hours. Those who act generally with the most consummate wisdom in the affairs of the world, often meditate very silly doings before their wiser resolutions form themselves.
~ Anthony Trollope
You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.
~ Sherwood Smith
Underpants! Underpants!
~ Sophie Kinsella
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Silliness has two ways of comporting itself; it talks, or is silent. Silent silliness can be borne.
~ balzac honore de xxiv
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
~ Walter Kirn
Crusoe's religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly.
~ George R. Stewart
Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.
~ George Saunders
Hump my hump, My stumpy lumpy hump! Hump my dump, you lumpy slumpy dump! I'll dump your hump, and then just hump your dump, You lumpy frumply clump.
~ George Saunders
Oh, I am ridiculous. She smiled. Absurd.
~ Sarah Blake
What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you can't stop...
~ Sarah Ruhl
I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
~ Emily Osment