(409 quotes found)
“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived”
Gertrude Stein
“I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?”
Sharon Tate
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are”
James Harvey Robinson
“It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women”
Marquis De Sade
“The best things in life are silly”
Scott Adams
“I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.”
Mitch Hedberg
“A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly”
George Eliot
“When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.”
Bill Cosby
“I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.”
Madonna